SREday Amsterdam 2024 - Finding observability and DevEx tranquility sailing the monitoring data seas (slides)

 As I previously posted, I was in Amsterdam at SREday Amsterdam today with my co-presenter Graziano Casto, developer relations engineer at Mia-Platform sharing a platform engineering story.

This event was one day and focused on Site Reliability, DevOps, and Cloud with a single track of talks. The venue was pretty amazing, the Pongbar, a rather lounge type atmosphere for this event and was a lot of fun meeting all the attendees and speakers.

Below you will find the slides and abstract for the story we presented.

This collaboration story was our first try at bringing observability to the foundations of your developer experience, ensuring it's a first class citizen in the platforms you are engineering from day one.

Below is the abstract and title in case you missed it previously.

Finding observability and DevEx tranquility sailing the monitoring data seas

The cloud-native ecosystem has grown exponentially in the last few years, as has the complexity of the distributed architectures being built. In a context where keeping up with technology requires a substantial amount of computational power and data, monitoring our cloud-native applications has become a constant struggle against the storm.

The ever-increasing volume of traces, metrics, events, and logs generated by our systems is a double-edged sword: on one hand, if not managed correctly, becoming a distraction from needed insights. On the other hand, if approached with care and thought, providing organizations the chance to sail calm cloud-native seas.

In this session, we will discover how to avoid drowning in the sea of monitoring data, instead understanding how to provide insights while using only what is needed. We will explore the emerging scenarios on the horizon, abandoning the oars and testing the waters of artificial intelligence as it applies to our observability use cases. We will discuss how to leverage monitoring data, conversational DevEx, and anomaly prediction, among other topics, in this talk.

Key takeaways: Attendees of this talk will gain practical strategies for managing the overwhelming volume of monitoring data in cloud-native environments. They will learn how to identify and use essential data to derive valuable insights, improve observability with emerging technologies, and enhance developer experience through conversational interfaces. Additionally, they will explore AI-driven techniques for predictive anomaly detection, enabling them to navigate and optimize their complex distributed systems effectively. Overall, attendees will leave equipped with the knowledge to transform monitoring challenges into opportunities for smoother and more efficient operations.

Date: 21 Nov 2024

Location: Pongbar, Amsterdam

Thanks to all who attended our talk and chatting afterwards about all things platform engineering with observability!