Today we ran the workshop Choose Your Own CNCF Observability Project Adventure in Room 327. It was bring a laptop, pick a project, and go deep on whichever one you care about most: Fluent Bit for pipelines, Prometheus for metrics, OpenTelemetry for traces, OpenTelemetry for Java Developers if you want hands on instrumentation, or Perses for visualization.
Below are the slides I shared to introduce everyone to the cloud native observability workshop collection.
I really like the vibe of this conference with the local scene full of really engaged developers and observability enthusiasts. I submitted a few ideas around my own personal open source interests and they came back asking me to facilitate a hands-on workshop.
The workshop is the sum of all my personal explorations of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects over the last four years. For this event they will be expanded into the option of running and exploring all the projects on a lightweight Kubernetes for your personal machine (k3s).
Read on for more details
Today I'm excited to share that I've joined SUSE as Technical Advocacy Lead — and I couldn't be more energized about what lies ahead.
Let me back up a bit, because getting here is a story worth telling.
In case you were still unaware, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is the flagship conference of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), gathering adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. The event brings together the entire cloud native ecosystem for education, collaboration, and networking opportunities.
Every year this event features multiple co-located events, and we're excited to be presenting at Cloud Native AI & Kubeflow Day, which focuses on the intersection of cloud native technologies and artificial intelligence workloads.
Below are all the details of our session at the time of this writing.
This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit.
Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.
The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.
Let's take a look at the topic of this article, integrating Fluent Bit with Prometheus. In case you missed the previous article, check out the developer guide to monitoring health metrics with Prometheus where you explore how to monitor the health of your telemetry data pipelines.
This article will complete our hands-on exploration of Prometheus integration, helping developers leverage Fluent Bit's powerful metrics capabilities. We'll look at the final pattern for integrating Fluent Bit with Prometheus in your observability infrastructure.
This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit.
Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.
The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.
Let's take a look at the topic of this article, integrating Fluent Bit with Prometheus. In case you missed the previous article, check out the developer guide to routing metrics to Prometheus where you explore how to collect and direct metrics telemetry data to your Prometheus instance.
This article will continue our hands-on exploration of Prometheus integration, helping developers leverage Fluent Bit's powerful metrics capabilities. We'll look at the second of three essential patterns for integrating Fluent Bit with Prometheus in your observability infrastructure.
This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit.
Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.
The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.
Let's take a look at the topic of this article, integrating Fluent Bit with Prometheus. In case you missed the previous article, check out the developer guide to telemetry pipeline routing where you explore how to direct telemetry data to different destinations based on tags, patterns, and conditions.
This article will be a hands-on exploration of Prometheus integration that helps you as a developer leverage Fluent Bit's powerful metrics capabilities. We'll look at the first of three essential patterns for integrating Fluent Bit with Prometheus in your observability infrastructure.
This year, the focus for me and my teams remained on the four pillars of our role: speaking, publishing, socializing, and hands-on content generation.
While 2024 was about observability (o11y) taking center stage, 2025 was the year we put those theories into practice, accelerated our momentum, and stated to gain serious traction in the wild.
Read on to find out more!
Over the years I've spoken at the Belgian and UK versions of Devoxx events. I've shared on topics covering application development, developer productivity, cloud development, and architecture.
My last appearance was at Devoxx UK in 2022, so it was really fun to be back again in London with a topic near to my heart. I shared some good basic insights into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox level visualization and dashboard project.
This session is a lot of fun to explore and includes access to a free online project sandbox where you can play with the tooling. Not only that, you can make use of the free online workshop where you build everything hands-on from scratch and learn about the Perses dashboard and visualization experience.
Below I'll share my slides and recording.
As previously posted, I spoke today at the Cloud Native London meetup on the topic of mastering Fluent Bit.
I really like the organization and the consistently high volume of smart attendees to test out my ideas. Again they proved why it's so fun to share my integration story with them about Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.
Below you will find my slides from this evening, a link to the live stream that captured all my live demoing of Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus all working seamlessly together!
Last time over a year ago I was here to share insights into OpenTelemetry, but this time I wanted to bring a new project to the stage: Fluent Bit.
This meetup started in the Edinburgh area, but expanded into the Glasgow tech community. It welcomes people with all levels of experience, even if you are starting your journey into tech as a student, boot camper, or you're thinking of starting your development career, you are more than welcome.
I spent the evening sharing an introduction to Fluent Bit pipelines and OpenTelemetry Collector and most of the session on live demoing the complete integration story to showcase it from front to back.
My slides from the talk are available online below.
As mentioned previously, Graziano Casto and I presented an online session for the Cloud Native Los Angeles meetup. We shared our thoughts on the subject of Observability-as-a-Service as related to when Platform Engineering and SRE teams work together.
The CNCF's Los Angeles (LA) community group represents the LA cloud native community and aims to promote and champion CNCF and open source technology as well as help network and collaborate. To that end, we are contributing whole heartedly!
By combining our personal experiences and expertise in Platform Engineering and Cloud Native Observability, we think this session provides good insights into how one can leverage the two disciplines to better our developer team's experiences.
We had a small live audience, but the talk was recorded, so I'm sharing our slide deck, the talk abstract, and the recording when it's available.
Instead, there was an evacuation of the area due to expected riots in the UK and the event was cancelled.
Fast-forward, it's now finally going to happen on 7 May 2025 with a more polished version than I would have brought back in the late summer of 2024.
The last time I was in Glasgow was for the Tech Meetup in July 2024. I spent the evening sharing the basics of OpenTelemetry and provided hands-on workshop content for all attendees to try out at home.
On 1 May 2025 I'm headed back to the Tech Meetup Glasgow, but this time I'm going to take them on a live demo ride with Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry!
The meetup started in the Edinburgh area, but has also expanded into the Glasgow tech community. It welcomes people with all levels of experience, even if you are starting your journey into tech as a student, boot camper, or you're thinking of starting your development career, you are more than welcome.
I'm going to be sharing an introduction to Fluent Bit pipelines and OpenTelemetry Collector, then live demo the complete integration story to showcase it from front to back.
The CNCF's Los Angeles (LA) community group represents the LA cloud native community and aims to promote and champion CNCF and open source technology as well as help network and collaborate. To that end, we are contributing whole heartedly!
By combining our personal experiences and expertise in Platform Engineering and Cloud Native Observability, we think this session provides good insights into how one can leverage the two disciplines to better our developer team's experiences.
Join us on this journey.
Today, as previously mentioned, I presented a fun hands-on session at Cloud Native Rejekts in London.
This event was started by a Netherlands based organization, hence the unique Dutch spelling of the word rejekts, and is meant to be a second chance for talks not accepted into the main CNCF event.In the past I've spoken at the North American event sharing a session on Perses, and at the European event sharing OpenTelemetry insights.
Today I shared a live demo session focused on integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry. Below you will find the session recording (video), slides and abstract.
Today as previously mentioned, with my co-presenter Graziano Casto, we've shared our story at SREday London.
This event is two days and focused on Site Reliability, DevOps, and Cloud with three tracks of talks. The venue will be the Everyman Canary Wharf, a rather hip location for this event and should be a lot of fun meeting with attendees and speakers.
This collaboration story is about 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 while discovering that it's giving SREs their super powers.
Below you will find the slides, the abstract, and our thanks for attending this event.
This event is two days and focused on Site Reliability, DevOps, and Cloud with three tracks of talks. The venue will be the Everyman Canary Wharf, a rather hip location for this event and should be a lot of fun meeting with attendees and speakers.
Graziano and I met a few years ago at Platmosphere and we've since been sharing topics of platform engineering and observability. This has led us to several events, including SREDay in Amsterdam last year and now London this year!
Below you will find the abstract for the story we plan to share.
I love the idea of second chances and believe many of the talks given at Cloud Native Rejekts should have been in the main event. Quality and quantity of these talks is often astounding. Since my transfer from the application development domains to the cloud native observability domain more than two years ago, I've never missed a single CFP for this event.
In the past I've spoken at the North American event sharing a session on Perses, and at the European event sharing OpenTelemetry insights. This year I've been selected to the Cloud Native Rejekts EU event with a session sharing what integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry looks like, including live demo components.
My last appearance was at Devoxx UK in 2022, so it is with great excitement that I'm sharing that I've gotten accepted for a cloud native observability session in my new domain of focus.
This year Devoxx UK 2025 conference is being held from May 7-9 in London. Being easily accessible for me so I'll be there to share some good basic insights into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox level visualization and dashboard project.