2024 Year in Review - Observability Takes Center Stage

As we ease into the last few days of 2024, I like to close out this one last task and that's reflecting back on all the fun, challenges, and travel over the past year.

While it takes a bit of research to gather all the facts and figures from the last year, it's not a hard one to write. I've been sharing on this site for almost 20 years now and without ads or trying to earn anything from it. It's been truly an open and honest effort to communicate with the world. Funny thing is, when I started out I never imagined that it would take off like it has, eclipsing over 3.8 million views at the time of this writing.

With that in mind, let's dive right into the main focus, where me and my teams are focusing on the four pillars of our role; speaking, publishing, socializing, and hands-on content generation. On top of that, collateral damage is traveling the globe to do it.

Dutch Cloud Native Day 2024: Meet the New Kid in the Sandbox, Perses (slides)

As previously mentioned, today I was on-site at the Dutch Cloud Native Day in Amsterdam to speak about one of my favorite Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox projects, Perses. 

The session I gave covered its attempts at becoming an open specification for dashboards and the open dashboard tool for Prometheus and other data sources. 

We saw how to integrate your visualizations as code, how easy it is to create beautiful dashboards, and I sent the attendees home with a free, online, self-paces workshop to get you started with your first Perses dashboards.

To complete the content sharing, below you will find the slides from my session.

Dutch Cloud Native Day 2024: Meet the New Kid in the Sandbox, Perses

On Tuesday, 10 December I'll be attending and speaking at the Dutch Cloud Native Day in Amsterdam. 

This one day event will be hosted at the University of Amsterdam buildings in the Science Park at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. 

I'll be sharing an overview of the latest new kid in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox projects, Perses. The talk will cover its attempts at becoming an open specification for dashboards and the open dashboard tool for Prometheus and other data sources. 

Join me for a fun session on how to integrate your visualizations as code, how easy it is to create beautiful dashboards, and head home with a free, online, self-paces workshop to get you started with your first Perses dashboards.

DevOpsCon Munich - Taking Back Control of Your Telemetry Data (slides)

 As previously mentioned, I was in Munich, Germany today for the DevOpsCon Munich event. 

It's a conference focusing on CI/CD, the Kubernetes Ecosystem, Agile, and Lean Business. It's both in-person and online for those wishing to take the virtual experience.

I was telling a story about how to take back control of your telemetry data. This will be some fun with telemetry pipelines and include several live demos.

Now let's look at the story I'm going to be sharing with the attendees and the slides I used.