While many SREs advocate for increased developer self-service to avoid becoming a bottleneck and to free up time for deeper, more impactful work, implementing effective self-service solutions—and establishing the right guardrails—can be challenging. In this talk, we will explore various approaches to enabling developer self-service, including writing custom operators, integrating existing operators, and leveraging Internal Developer Portals. Additionally, we will examine the broader role of IDPs in the daily operations of SREs, highlighting how these platforms can enhance efficiency and collaboration.

Navigating and managing an application estate can be overwhelming for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) going into an organisation. What if you could instantly understand the codebase through visualisations, up-to-date technical document, and a chat experience, and pinpoint exactly where to focus your efforts? RiverSafe’s NeuroLogik application makes this possible. In this session, we'll demonstrate how to empower SREs to enhance automation, facilitate seamless collaboration with development teams, and surface organization-specific best practices and solutions, allowing you to quickly grasp your application estate and identify areas that require immediate attention.

Jerome Sadler is co-founder and Director of the AI-focussed startup FutureNow Solutions Ltd, and is an AI Partner for RiverSafe, working with RiverSafe at a FTSE 100 Company on the first in-house, AI-powered application that they approved for production use. Since completing his studies at Cambridge University, Jerome’s career has encompassed development and solutions architecture in Java and .NET in the Insurance (Xchanging) and Capital Markets industries (Coexis / GBST), Programme Management in the Telecommunications industry (Colt), as well as a variety of Technology Innovation consultancy roles. He sits on the Technology Advisory Board for the medical technology organisation CorporateHealth International. Latterly, he has focussed on the practical ways in which AI, in combination with more orthodox engineering approaches, can deliver meaningful outcomes to organisations.

This session covers the basics of how to use isolation boundaries to build resilient applications, and dives deep into using chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to test those boundaries.

AWS provides isolation boundaries, including Availability Zones and AWS Regions, which can be used to meet high availability and continuity of operations requirements. To verify that your application behaves as expected, it’s critical to test its response to impairments. This session covers the basics of how to use isolation boundaries to build resilient applications, dives deep into using chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to test those boundaries, and provides best practices around continuous resilience to help you prevent regression and maintain application availability.

Gunnar is a Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in Sweden. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has previously worked as both a frontend and backend developer, as an operations engineer within cloud infrastructure, and as a technical trainer, in addition to several different management roles. With a focus on building reliable and robust serverless applications, Gunnar has been one of the driving forces in creating techniques and tools for using chaos engineering in serverless. He regularly and passionately speaks at events on these and other serverless topics around the world.

To understand how to retain, build and grow SREs, we need to know what not to do. In my time in tech I've been a contributor and manager and have good and bad experiences of managing and being managed. Join me as I share how not to manage SRE teams and the mistakes made in this ecosystem.

Retention of SREs is a difficult challenge for teams. LinkedIn listed Site Reliability Engineers on their 2023 Jobs on the Rise list, showing demand for their skills is rising.
To keep SREs engineers happy in this booming industry, as managers, we need to know how to make them unhappy. Join me as I talk about antipatterns in management, development, testing and monitoring patterns that can stop you from retaining awesome SREs.

Carly is a Principal Developer Advocate and Manager at Elastic, based in London, UK. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years working as a technologist at a large investment bank, specialising in Frontend Web development and agility. She is an agile evangelist, UI enthusiast, and regular blogger. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea and chasing after her young son.

Trying to mature your platform engineering team? Don't know where to start, or what pitfalls may be waiting for you. Then this talk is for you. Based on real world experience gained across a variety of clients, and using the CNCF platform maturity model as a guide, we explore & answer such questions

Kubernetes tends to be one of the first tools reached for when building platforms and supporting platform engineering initiatives. But success relies on a lot more than just making K8S itself easier for developers to consume. Working out how to balance people, process, policy and technology within a unique organisational context is key to uncovering a feasible and sustainable path forward. This talk will explore how the CNCF platform maturity model can be used as part of a toolbox to help guide organisations think through such journeys. We begin by identifying a few common scenarios organisations find themselves starting in, and map this onto the model. Then, leveraging our experience of having partnered with different organisations on their platform engineering journeys, we plot out a few paths and options which can help to practically move organisations towards achieving their desired business outcomes.

Nicki Watt currently serves as OpenCredo’s CTO and CEO, a pragmatic hands on software consultancy with specialisms in platform and data engineering as well as cloud native solution development. Her career has seen her wear many hats from Engineer, Systems & Technical Architects to Consultant and now CTO and CEO. With a background in leading and overseeing the successful development and delivery of large scale platform and application development projects, she is a techie at heart, author and regular conference speaker who loves to share her experience with the broader community.

Discover the truth behind Platform Engineering! Join Horovits as he delves into its evolution, demystifies its purpose, and reveals how it maps to the DevOps maturity model. Gain insights from industry giants and community white papers, and learn when and why your organization needs it.

Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of SRE and DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand? And most importantly - do I need it?

In this talk Horovits will look into the accumulated experience of larger organizations, the common pains that drive them to adopt Platform Engineering, and what DevOps and SRE responsibilities it covers. The talk will also share insights from the recent whitepaper published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s TAG App Delivery.

Horovits will also provide guidance on which organizations should adopt Platform Engineering and at which point in their DevOps maturity lifecycle. This talk will equip you with the fundamentals to assess Platform Engineering for your organization.

Horovits is a DevOps Specialist & CNCF Ambassador. He lives at the intersection of technology, product and open source. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud-native solutions, DevOps practices and more. Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as an Ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). He runs the successful OpenObservability Talks podcast, where he evangelizes on Observability in IT systems using popular open source projects such as Prometheus, OpenSearch, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.

Imagine a system designed to process millions of events per day, but as use grows, data mysteriously seems to disappear, only to reappear later. We’ll talk about the what, why and how we investigated the symptoms, overturned some assumptions and finally delivered a resilient, serverless solution

Starting out in a very traditional background in the data-centres of the fabled M4 corridor, Simon eventually realised it was time to give up on the problems of manually babysitting servers, racks and UPS's and migrated to the Cloud (and in the process, the Scottish Highlands) and now works to enable clients to transition their workloads, processes and swag requirements to the same route. Simon is a member of the AWS Community builder program, and these days enjoys coaching and mentoring as much as get hands-on with code, automation and head-scratching.

I spent years managing 3rd-line support for some of busiest transactional sites in the world: fixing issues in real-time; writing major incident reports; to managing processes for 50 engineers of varying levels. This talk is about what I learned in the process about what has come to be known as SRE.

Ian Miell has over twenty-five years' experience in software consulting on, writing, running, architecting, and maintaining software and infrastructure for dozens of businesses from large to small. He now focusses on unblocking organisations from making technical changes from the top to the bottom of the tech and management stacks.

He has written the book 'Docker in Practice' (published by Manning), 'Learn Bash the Hard Way', 'Learn Git the Hard Way', and 'Learn Terraform the Hard Way' (published on Leanpub), as well as various training courses for O'Reilly Media and others.

He blogs about his experiences at zwischenzugs.com, and works for Container Solutions as a Partner.

We're developer productivity obsessed, worse, developer productivity METRICS obsessed. Deployment frequency! MTTR! eNPS! It's become a delightful distraction. Besides, who really benefits from this focus? This talk makes the case that we should focus more on actual craft and less on metrics.

Michael Cote studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck_ cover these topics. He's been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.

SRE are Google's specialists for designing, building, and running complex services that are reliable, scalable, efficient, and maintainable. The SRE Engagement Model describes how the collaboration between developers and SREs works and how reliability engineering can be applied early in development.

George is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) currently working as a technical lead for the Google Ads SRE team in London, UK. With a background in software engineering and product management, he is passionate about understanding all aspects of tech product development and developer productivity. Prior to joining Google, George gained valuable experience through his work at CERN, Pivotal, and startups, where he gained expertise in virtualization, Cloud Foundry PaaS, on-prem Kubernetes, and Python app development. He has also had the opportunity to share his knowledge at conferences such as PyCon UK, Cloud Foundry Summits, Open Source Summits, and computing for high-energy physics conferences (CHEP).

All of us have attended lots of talks with the premise “from Zero to Hero…”, but what does it take for a real Rock Star, a real Ninja, a magical Unicorn, a superhero to become a complete Zero? How can we destroy those heroes in a way that every supervillain on every film has dreamt about every day?

Antonio is an Agile enthusiast with more than 20 years experience in the IT industry and specialises in Agile methodologies. He comes from a technical background, starting his career as a Java Developer in Spain in 2000, moving to different roles within IT in three different countries. Antonio is passionate about creating and implementing the best solution while continually seeking to improve work methodologies. He is convinced that most of the problems in IT are due to lack of communication! He usually speaks about Agile, DevOps,Team management and mental health at conferences across Europe and US, such as DevOps Days, Agile Tour, JSConf, Codemotion and Voxxed Days.

Inspired by work from hyperscale SRE teams, RunWhen is building the industry's largest open source library of troubleshooting automation. Contributing Authors receive royalties when the company's enterprise customers use their code to automate root cause analysis and remediation.

TL;DR

Hyperscale SRE teams don't use traditional runbooks. Instead, each team hooks in to a massive shared library of automated troubleshooting steps covering all layers of their infrastructure, platform and application dependencies. RunWhen is building a (paid) expert community to create an open source equivalent of these shared libraries, along with an enterprise AI platform that runs hundreds of automated troubleshooting steps in response to incoming alerts, questions, CI/CD jobs, etc. When an enterprise user imports automation from the RunWhen community, the original Author receives a royalty. This talk is for potential interested Authors.

Who is this for?

The RunWhen Authors program is an opportunity for SRE/PE/DevOps engineers who enjoy writing high quality automation for root cause analysis and remediation, or who simply want to learn about how hyperscale SRE teams think about their automation programs. In 2024, the RunWhen Authors program is focused primarily on the Kubernetes ecosystem -- underlying cloud infrastructure, platform, popular open source components (read: the top 100 Helm charts) and common application troubleshooting patterns.

What will we cover?

This talk will provide an overview of contributions to the library thus far, typical users of the library, how to spot a good potential contribution and the basics of structuring the automated steps in wrappers that the RunWhen platform can consume. We will go over some of the AI code authoring tools that the RunWhen team has written to make the process of creating high quality troubleshooting automation quickly. Several examples will be shown, along with links to learn more and pointers to hands-on workshops where attendees can write their first automated troubleshooting steps, publish them for the community and watch them executed by RunWhen AI Troubleshooting Assistants.

Kyle Forster is the Founder of RunWhen, a company pioneering the use of AI for troubleshooting mission critical applications in dev, test and production environments. Prior to RunWhen, Kyle was the Senior Director for Product Management in Google's Kubernetes team. He is a second time founder, having previously started Big Switch Networks, a pioneer in Software Defined Networking (acquired by Arista Networks). Kyle started his career at Cisco after doing an MBA and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He currently holds six patents in wireless and software defined networking technologies lives with his wife, three children and two dogs in the greater London area where he recently settled after relocating from Silicon Valley.

Unlock the future of Kubernetes security with GenAI and eBPF. Learn to predict, detect, and neutralize threats in real-time. This session reveals how AI and monitoring transform security strategies for engineers and platforms in fast-paced environments.

The need for proactive and predictive security measures has never been more urgent at a time when cyber threats are evolving faster than ever. This session will explore the state of Kubernetes security and present a new paradigm for detecting threats beyond traditional reactive approaches. We'll look at how security engineers, DevSecs and Platform Engineers can radically change their safety posture by integrating Observability with new GenAI Artificial Intelligence based capabilities. We'll start by analyzing the complexity of the Kubernetes architecture and the unique security challenges it presents. Later in the session, attendees will gain insight into how eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) serves as the cornerstone for real-time kernel-level data collection and monitoring, providing unparalleled visibility into system calls and network traffic. By leveraging GenAI's adaptive algorithms, we will demonstrate how to anticipate, identify and neutralize advanced threats before they evolve into breaches. Attendees will learn how to harness GenAI’s machine learning prowess to automate threat detection, streamline incident response, and promote a security-first culture within their Kubernetes environments.

Michele is a Site Reliability Engineer at Accenture. Given his previous experience as a Software Engineer in the field of AI and Industrial Automation, Michele is now driving the AIOps campaign for an American technology customer. Aside from implementing novel technical solutions and POCs, Michele is a lead member of several DevOps communities, where he is predominantly focusing on SRE-related offerings, with the goal of promoting SRE principles, practices and culture.

Join me as I transition from football to tech, focusing on Kubernetes. Learn how teamwork, discipline, and strategy from sports influenced my tech career. Discover my journey into building developer platforms and the parallels between leading a sports team and orchestrating cloud-native environments

Steve Wade founded The Cloud Native Club, a global community for cloud-native enthusiasts. He is also a maintainer of the Flux Terraform Provider. As an experienced conference speaker, independent cloud-native consultant, and trainer, Steve shares his expertise worldwide. He has held platform leadership roles across various industries, including real estate, gaming, fintech, and the UK Parliament. With a BSc in Computer Science, Steve is passionate about cloud-native software development and distributed computing. Connect with him on Twitter and GitHub at @swade1987.

If you need to define a road map to build more reliable products through SRE building ways of working adoption, you need to make an strategy to have a solid why and a road map to reach outcomes iteratively while you follow SRE road map adoption at your company, in this talk we share a real experience

Jorge is an agilist, Agility & Digital Transformation Lead Coach, QA Manager, DevOps Program Manager, and global speaker who feels passion for Testing Automation, Agile, DevOps and business agility. He enjoys research and learning about business agility and working with cutting-edge technologies. He has been learning continuously for more than 12 years and is still learning new ways to foster enterprise agility and team greatness. He has worked in several roles (developer, tester, IT program manager, Software engineering in Test manager, QA manager, agile coach) which helps him to see the big picture and operational and team members dynamics happening inside organizations. This experience lets him help teams design, build, and implement digital, DevOps and agile transformation strategies. He encourages focus on: People, Productivity, Continuous improvement, Innovation and having fun to enjoy success in our agile journeys. Jorge has been a speaker in Agile and DevOps events organized in Peru, Canada, UK, Netherlands, India, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Panama, Azerbaijan, Australia, US among other countries.

The session would focus on the importance of Engineering Portals to accelerate Developer Experience by letting them "Create" Reusable Patterns, "Manage" their software catalog in a centralized inventory, and "Explore" the software ecosystem in a unified Single Pane of Glass.

Nishkarsh is a DevSecOps expert and an International GitHub Star. Nishkarsh is an ardent supporter of open-source, GitHub, DevEx, and DevOps. Nishkarsh serves as StatusNeo Inc.'s Principal Evangelist & Consultant. Over the years, he has been actively GitHubbing and contributing to open-source. By giving talks at conferences, organizing meetups, and encouraging people to take on the #100DaysofCode challenge, he has encouraged many brilliant minds to embark on their journeys in open-source projects and preach the significance of collaboration to aspiring developers.

When people tell me "alerts suck", I tell them "No, YOUR alerts suck." Here's why: We suck at creating alerts that are useful, meaningful, and most of all actionable. But there's good news: We'll show you how your alerts can suck less, and even be more manageable, using a few easy techniques.

A full speaker profile is available on adatosystems.com* In my sordid career, I have been an actor, bug exterminator and wild-animal remover (nothing crazy like pumas or wildebeests. Just skunks, snakes, and raccoons.), electrician, carpenter, stage-combat instructor, ASL interpreter, and Sunday school teacher. Oh, yeah, I've also worked with computers. While my first keyboard was an IBM selectric, and my first digital experience was on an Atari 400, my professional work in tech started in 1989 (when you got Windows 286 for free on twelve 5¼” when you bought Excel 1.0). Since then I've worked as a classroom instructor, courseware designer, helpdesk operator, desktop support staff, sysadmin, network engineer, and software distribution technician. Then, about 25 years ago, I got involved with monitoring. I've worked with a wide range of tools: Tivoli, BMC, OpenView, janky perl scripts, Nagios, SolarWinds, DOS batch files, Zabbix, Grafana, New Relic, and other assorted nightmare fuel. I've designed solutions for companies that were modest (~10 systems), significant (5,000 systems), and ludicrous (250,000 systems). In that time, I've learned a lot about monitoring and observability in all it's many and splendid forms.

Unlock the full potential of Kubernetes with Karpenter! Scale effortlessly, optimize efficiently, and upgrade seamlessly. Join my talk to revolutionize your cloud infrastructure journey in just minutes! Don't miss out on this game-changing solution!

Having more than 10 years of working experience in the IT industry, I have worked in both pre-sales and post-sales roles. This made me be well-equipped with technical skills which helps enable me to work hand-in-hand with the customers to achieve their business outcomes. With a service mindset, I also learned how to build the relationship with the customers over time simply by putting myself in their shoes and learn what their pain points really are then we could find a remedy or a solution for that together. Moreover, I am a fast learner and love an environment in which allows me to have the ability to learn new things every day. After that, I could convey this information to my customers and peers what I have studied, which sometimes unexpectedly helps them to succeed in something. I am really proud of myself when I am one of the thousand pieces behind someone’s achievement.

Imagine a product made of a number of microservices on Kubernetes and dozens of devs working on them. Now imagine multiple environments, where they must be deployed, tested and demoed at the speed of light. Let's put all of this together in a design that satisfies devs, customers and SRE's nights!

Virtual Kubernetes cluster is a new approach to dealing with Kubernetes multi-tenancy pain. With virtual k8s clusters, each tenant has what feels like a full-blown, dedicated cluster inside a shared host cluster. Let's learn how you can use a virtual cluster to save costs and improve productivity.

Hrittik is currently Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, who has previously worked at various startups helping them scale their content efforts. He loves diving deep into distributed systems and creating articles on them and has spoken at conferences such as Azure Cloud Summit, UbuCon Asia and Kubernetes Community Days - Lagos and Chennai among others! His best days are when he finds ways to create impact in the communities he’s a part of either by code, content, or mentorship!

Adding new functionality to Terraform can be daunting: it’s written only in Go (which you may not know) and you have to understand the architecture and work through less than welcoming documentation. I’ll provide a walkthrough from my experience with it, going from zero to publishing a provider.

Harel Safra is a Data Platform Engineering Team Lead at Riskified, a Fintech company focusing on fraud prevention. His team manages the online data platform supporting real time fraud detection systems. He has worked in various Data And Infrastructure roles throughout his career, always striving for simpler ways to achieve scalable, optimally performing systems

A comprehensive overview of various aspects of building a highly scalable fintech startup with a product-led strategy. In this talk, I will share insights on different problems and solutions for tackling the inevitable growing complexity during the scaling of a fintech startup. He will also discuss the role of technology in enhancing customer experience and streamlining operations.

Alex is a dedicated Software Engineering Manager with a specialization in the .NET environment and software architecture. Currently serving as the Engineering Lead at a prominent fintech company in London, Alex has led the development and deployment of critical products that have made significant impacts on the fintech landscape. His initiatives have directly led to the enhancement of payment systems, the introduction of innovative financial solutions, and the strengthening of security measures. These contributions have not only propelled the company's growth but have also set new standards in the industry.

Learn how to accelerate web applications and APIs by caching the HTTP output in Varnish. Instead of focusing on basic use cases with static content that is easily cacheable, this presentation shows how to cache personalized content "on the edge", that is otherwise deemed uncacheable.

As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media. Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 300 presentations in 22 countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style. As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP community. He has contributed to various communities for over 15 years both technically and as an organizer and facilitator. Prior to joining Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn spent 15 years in the web hosting industry, tackling web performance and scalability issues on a daily basis and evangelizing these topics. For more information, please visit - https://feryn.eu/speaking

Are you struggling to make sense of your telemetry data or overwhelmed by your system's sheer volume and complexity? Learn how the OpenTelemetry Collector can help you streamline data collection, optimize performance, and gain unparalleled insights into your applications.

Configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector can be a daunting task for both novices and seasoned professionals alike. Yet, mastering this crucial aspect is essential for unlocking the full potential of your observability stack. In this session, you will embark on a journey to gain the knowledge and skills needed to conquer common OpenTelemetry Collector configuration challenges. This session will draw from real-world experiences and best practices and provide live demonstrations to navigate the intricacies of OpenTelemetry Collector configuration. Whether you are a novice looking to get started or a seasoned veteran seeking to level up your skills, this session promises to empower you with the knowledge and confidence needed to properly and efficiently configure the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Steve Flanders is a Senior Director of Engineering at Splunk (acquired by Cisco) responsible for the Observability Platform team, which includes contributions to the OpenTelemetry project. He was previously the Head of Product at Omnition (acquired by Splunk). Prior to Omnition, he led log analytics and data collection at VMware. Steve is writing a book called Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability: Enhancing Application and Infrastructure Performance and Avoiding Outages, which will be available this fall.

Don’t panic! We will take head-on all the nitty gritty details and unknowns of what to do when things are going south, pods are on fire and nothing seems to work: we’ll give you hints, tools and techniques to face the most egregious of outages and the hidden dragons of creepy memory leaks, with superpowers given to you by eBPF and service meshes.

Community leader and CNCF ambassador, Alessandro has spent the last few years building cloud native infrastructures for Microsoft customers, animating the Dutch community, and training others to pass the CKx exams. He has passion for all things cloud native, he's been around open source for 25 years and recently moved to a new Developer Relations role at Solo.io, where he's on a mission to install a service mesh in every Kubernetes cluster he gets his hands on.

Lies, damned lies and statistics. But statistics allow you to lie to yourself. Statistics can trick us into believing things that are less than true, though not on purpose. Learn how data choice, event focus and scale change perspective. See how graphs mislead and correlation can cause confusion.

Currently providing technical evangelism for NGINX, Dave works with DevOps, developers and architects to understand the advantages of modern microservice architectures and orchestration to solve large-scale distributed systems challenges, especially with open source and its innovation. Dave has been a champion for open systems and open source from the early days of Linux, through open distributed file systems like XFS, GFS, and GlusterFS to today's world of clouds and containers. He often speaks on topics such as the real-world issues associated with emerging software architectures and practices, on open source software and on creating new technology companies. Dave has spoken on technical topics like distributed request tracing, modern monitoring practices, open sources projects from both corporations and foundation views, and on how open source innovations powers todays world. Dave was named as one of the top ten pioneers in open source by Computer Business Review, having cut his teeth on Linux and compilers before the phrase "open source" was coined. Well versed in trivia, he won a Golden Penguin in 2002. When he's not talking, you can find him hiking with his trusty camera, trying to keep up with his wife.

How to deploy a reproducible environment on bare metal with Talos Linux. Our experience in developing an open platform designed for on-premise. How we ensure component stability on any hardware.

Linux and Open Source fanboy. Developer Advocate and crazy idea generator. I like to find non-standard solutions and promote them to the community. Over the years, I've gathered a lot of experience with free virtualization platforms and software-defined storage. Currently, most of the technologies I work with are Kubernetes, LINSTOR and KubeVirt.

Perses is to Prometheus as what Grafana was for graphite. And even though Grafana has become so much more, Perses is an extremely interesting new entry into the dashboad/visualisation space. This talk will have an up to date demo and some of the unique advantages Perses offers over alternatives.

Erwin is a DevOps Engineer at Fullstaq. He loves educating people what it means to build cloud native applications (and it’s not just using the “cloud”). Using the Cloud Native landscape to make application delivery and lifecycle simple and reliable. At home he is always looking for sidequests; monitoring his power usage to send notifications when his washing machine is done, connecting the garage door to the internet (securely) and adding music to his elevator are just a few examples. His experience makes him a very practical engineer, finding the simple solution is more important than having a modern, shiny solution.

This talk is about Data analysts who mostly work as Data Scientists who need to visualize data mostly available in Google Excel data sets aka data sheets on the cloud and using Grafana can help to visualize and monitor it by using the Excel sheet plugin.

Whether you are just starting your career or already an expert Data Analyst, you need multiple tools and techniques to manipulate data into visual metrics to track the most important KPIs in your organization. However, sharing such information with others can be challenging as it requires the same skills and tools to get the same results. In this talk, we will demonstrate an example of how you can visualize and monitor a time-series-based performance report dataset from an Excel sheet to represent it in various visualization formats and get key metrics or find trends in your Dataset Grafana dashboards. Also, we will gain insight into details by applying some filtering techniques that will give you a more adaptable and user-centric dashboard experience either for your personal projects or for the entire team. It will be an introduction to the Grafana Dashboards and also an excellent opportunity to learn more about utilizing advanced options to effectively extract and represent meaningful insights from complex data sets. Join us to learn more about Grafana dashboards, community contributions and share your feedback and suggestions!

Usman is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack. He has over 15 years of experience in IT and Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc. He is an active international public speaker participating in multiple conferences and events. In his free time, Usman likes to spend time with his family, go out on occasional traveling and play games or read comics.

The presentation explores how observability can improve service quality down to the database level. The speaker will discuss how OVHcloud refined the efficiency of their information system databases. The talk shares a recipe for getting the most out of your DBMS and how to get rid of slow queries.

In his position as the leader of a SRE team, Wilfried focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customer satisfaction.

DevOps is not a trend that has come and gone. It's a cultural shift that has fundamentally changed how software is developed and deployed. While emerging practices like Platform Engineering may seem to be taking over, they are not meant to replace DevOps; instead, they are complementary to it.

Principal Engineer, SRE at FanDuel/Blip.pt. MSc in Computer Science by the University of Porto. CK{AD, A, S} by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) | Linux Foundation. {Terraform, Consul, Vault} Associate by HashiCorp. Working daily to build high-performance, reliable and scalable systems. DevOps Porto meetup co-organizer and DevOpsDays Portugal co-organizer. A strong believer in culture and teamwork. Open source passionate, martial arts amateur, and metal lover.

In SreCON19, Todd Underwood from Google gave a presentation with the title “All of Our ML Ideas Are Bad (and We Should Feel Bad)”. Let’s see a few ML ideas, implemented in the open-source Netdata, that may not actually be that bad.

Hi! I am Costa Tsaousis, the Founder and CEO of Netdata. Since 1995, I have been actively working on internet related startups. I have been a co-founder and C-level executive of many successful projects, including Internet Service Providers, Cloud Hosting Providers and Fintech startups. I have a passion for innovation and open-source and I now lead Netdata, a monitoring solution aiming to simplify and modernize infrastructure observability for all of us. I am a cat person and we have a whole tribe of them at the office constantly walking on our keyboards. We try to keep them out of the room when we are pressing the release button ;)

Why don't you get dedicated product support from the company? Why is it so hard to get a headcount for your platform team? Why is it so hard to drive adoption of the products you create for the dev org? The truth is that Platform Engineering is a company within a company. Run it that way.

Matt Simons is a Director of Engineering and Head of Platform Engineering at Fanatics Betting and Gaming. He is definitely a human and does very unsuspicious, typical human activities, like grating cheese and turning on light switches. Also he's terrible at writing bios for himself and probably doesn't take the activity (or himself) as seriously as he should. Mild contempt for convention and authority are a pretty core part of who he is. Despite all that, he's still a genuinely decent person who loves meeting new people and talking about interesting things. If you meet him in person, handshakes are allowed and hugs are encouraged. Be warned: he may smile at you.

Would you like to do something more than just create prompts for ChatGPT? How about building an application? During the presentation you will get an intuition about what it takes to build the LLM-base application. From writing the code to production deployment. We will cover tricky aspects like good retrieval, costs or privacy. By the end of the presentation you will understand these kinds of problems: https://tantusdata.com/insights/what-if-the-data-is-too-large-for-the-llm-context/

Specialising in monetising big data for clients since the 07's, Marcin is leading a team of seasoned data engineers specialised in everything data: Data Engineering, ML, ML-ops, and Cloud. Marcin is an expert in non-standard issues and those more run-down-the-mill that must be solved quickly and conveniently. His experience spans industries and various project sizes. But his speciality remains the area of AI, Ml and deployment. Marcin's professional journey boasts collaborations with industry titans such as Apple, Spotify and Telia, as well as, nurturing startups. Such rich expertise makes him an excellent speaker.

This talk will be particularly valuable for DevOps engineers looking to optimize their alert management systems and reduce the cognitive load caused by alert fatigue.

Alert fatigue has long been a significant challenge for the DevOps community, often leading to decreased efficiency and increased stress among professionals. In this talk, we will explore innovative strategies leveraging Artificial Intelligence to mitigate alert noise. We will dive into techniques to group alerts based on content similarity and demonstrate methods to filter events based on various conditions. Furthermore, we will cover approaches to adjusting alert thresholds to find a balance between capturing all potential duplicates and minimizing false positives, providing best practices and guidelines for threshold management to enhance alert accuracy. IT administrators seeking to integrate advanced AI techniques into their monitoring workflows for better performance and reliability, as well as AI and machine learning enthusiasts keen to learn about practical applications of AI in the realm of IT monitoring and alerting, will gain actionable insights and practical knowledge

Birol Yildiz is the Co-founder and CEO of ilert, adeptly steering the company with a rare combination of technical and product expertise. His prior experience includes a significant role as Chief Product Owner for Big Data products at REWE Digital. With a strong foundation in computer science, Birol bridges the gap between developer and product strategist, constantly striving to innovate and provide customer-centric solutions at ilert.

This talk will explore the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance decision-making and diagnosis in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Leveraging the capabilities of Generative AI, we propose an Omni-functional approach to synthesizing insights from diverse sources, including project management, application portfolio management, enterprise architecture, cost management, and business process management tools and other IT4IT tool ecosystems. By harnessing Generative AI, SRE teams can gain deeper insights into system behavior, identify potential issues, and make informed decisions to optimize reliability, performance, and scalability. Through scenario simulation, anomaly detection, optimization recommendations, and natural language understanding, Generative AI empowers SREs to proactively address challenges, automate remediation actions, and enhance the overall reliability and resilience of software systems. This paper presents a technical framework for integrating Generative AI-powered Omni-functional Insights into the SRE workflow.

Zero Trust Security Framework deployed as guardrails to verify every request as if it originates from an open network and anticipates that threats can be both internal and external using Enterprise Solutions like Hashicorp Sentinel and Open-source tools like Kyverno and Open Policy Agent.

My name is Anthony Ekpechue, and I work for Globallogic UK&I as a Lead Cloud Delivery Consultant. I have several years of experience as a DevOps Engineer and have a track record of delivering cloud solutions, with a focus on cloud adoption and migrating from monolithic to microservice architecture. I have also successfully implemented Zero Trust Solution across serverless workloads in a multi-tenant environment.

When delegating work to background jobs, developers often manage multiple queues, which can lead to unpredictable problems initially. In this talk, I propose a different approach based on latency tolerance to address common issues encountered with queues.

Life-long coder, expert procrastinator, and occasional game programmer obsessed with code performance and weird Lego machinery.

Learn how cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes are revolutionizing database software, enabling scalability, resilience, and agility. Join Divine a Data on Kubernetes Ambassador to explore real-world examples and best practices for building the next generation of database solutions.

In the face of ever-growing data volumes and the increasing complexity of modern applications, cloud native technologies are emerging as the cornerstone of next-generation database systems. Last year, Divine joined Severalnines, a company that builds database automation and management software used by hundreds of organizations. Coming from a background of cloud native technologies like Kubernetes and Cilium, Divine joined Severalnines in their journey building cloud native database software for cloud service providers and enterprise organizations. In this talk, Divine will explore the multifaceted (many sides) role of cloud native technologies in shaping modern database systems. Divine will delve into the specifics of how Kubernetes Operators, Container Storage Interfaces (CSI), APIs, etc., are transforming the way databases are built, deployed, and managed. Towards the end, Divine will discuss the benefits these technologies bring, such as enhanced scalability, resilience, agility, and automation, highlighting case studies of organizations across the Data on Kubernetes (DoK) community. This presentation is designed for database administrators, software engineers, DevOps professionals, and anyone interested in the intersection of cloud-native technologies and database systems.

Divine Odazie is a Technology Evangelist at Severalnines with over 5+ years of experience in Technology and a track record in Backend Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Native and Developer Relations on a global scale. He has given talks/workshops at developer conferences like Open Source Summit Europe, KubeCon North America, Cloud Native Rejekts, and Ansible Contributor Summit.

You will see the advantages of using the k8s provider for terraform instead of helm to manage the k8s objects ("yamls"). It allows you to see and confirm exactly what changes will happen in your cluster. Later we'll see how to integrate that with the AWS ALB and forward traffic directly to pods.

Bachelor in Computer Science, open source developer (some apps with more than 100k downloads), has experience working in Germany, Switzerland and United States, AWS Certified and currently working full time as DevOps. I have a reasonable number of open source contributions, including more than 20 to the k8s dashboard, ansible, terraform, AWS Load Balancer Controller for k8s, minikube and fluentd.

Have you encountered a project where every single app reads a config file on startup? Have you struggled to find those files or change them? Did you feel that there is something off with this approach? Look no further! We will discuss when flags can solve all of these issues (and when they can't).

I'm Oleg. I like memes.

You don't learn until your back is up against the wall and the clock is ticking down. Join us as we explore 3 broken Kubernetes clusters in an attempt to fix each one within less than 30 minutes.

What do you do when your Kubernetes cluster stops working? As more teams and organizations adopt Kubernetes, more developers and operators are taking on the responsibility of keeping their clusters happy and healthy. While there's lots of information online for getting started and extending Kubernetes, there's not a lot that focuses on debugging and handling outages; enter Klustered. In this session, I will guide the participants through some clusters broken by members of the Kubernetes community; showing the methods and techniques to establish which component has a problem, how to determine the root cause, and apply a fix to get the cluster operational.

Founder of the Rawkode Academy, open source contributor, and beloved husband and father to my wife, two amazing kids, and a plethora of animals. David has been developing software professionally for nearly 20 years, starting with embedded systems written in C back in 2004, and has spent that entire time learning the paradigms of different programming languages, including C++, PHP, Java, and Haskell - though more recently preferring to work with Go, Rust, and Pony. As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, containers, and cloud-native technologies. During his time as the Director of Development for a rock and metal media organization called TeamRock (now LouderSound), David was responsible for the software, infrastructure, and website during its biggest test: the unfortunate death of Lemmy Kilmister. Fortunately, due to his desire to experiment and play with new technologies, David and his team had already migrated their slow to provision virtual-machine centric infrastructure to containerised workloads running on Amazon Web Services the year prior, 2014, not long after the public launch of Docker. As much as David enjoys writing software, scaling infrastructure, and leading teams, he quickly realised that his passion was helping others learn and be successful. David started presenting at local user groups in 2016, slowly working up to conferences, before eventually moving into a full-time Developer Advocacy position at InfluxData - where he presented and taught workshops at 42 events in 2019. Outside of technology, David enjoys reading science fiction, drinking craft beer and whisky, and very-very-very slowly learning to play the piano.

Sometimes you delete production, you drop tables, you change a conf and everything breaks but what if you upgraded the wrong environment, to the wrong version, of the wrong customer (that also happens to be the bigger your company has)? And what if you did it right before going to a long lunch? This is a tale of compliance, regulations, unauthorized deployments and ethical questions! Solved more through diplomacy than with coding. Memes included*

Discover Debezium: Real-time database change streaming made seamless. Say goodbye to vendor lock-in with the innovative Debezium Server. Learn about parallelization and Kubernetes deployment using the Debezium Operator and supercharge your application performance.

About me

My name is Ondrej, and I am passionate about almost everything related to IT. I spend most of my free time watching, fixing, or driving cars, so we will have a lot to talk about if you are a car or bike person. Besides that, I have a beard and am pretty tall, so I suppose I am easy to find. I am open to conversing with anyone, learning something new, or giving anybody some advice.

Career

I have been working in Red Hat as a Senior Quality Engineer and Team Lead for almost 6 years now on various projects: * Enmasse * PatrIoT * Apicurio Registry * Debezium Currently, I have two main projects that I am interested in: * Debezium project, which I find very interesting, and I love working with the whole community around it. * Skodjob project: this project was created some years ago by my colleagues David Kornel and Jakub Stejskal. It contains various tooling for long-running test environments on the Openshift environment and database performance tooling. Other than that, I am still trying to find time to work on some of my older projects, like Rust MQTT, the first Async Rust MQTT client for embedded devices at the time.

Kubernetes Dynamic Admission control can be used for advanced validation and error correction of workloads. If you've ever wanted to make sure workloads in your clusters are conforming to security best practices, this talk will show you how!

Richard Tweed is a Kubernetes specialist at Tessl. Over the last five years he has been ensuring security, scalability and compliance across all major Kubernetes cloud platforms. He's also the lead maintainer of kube-audit-rest

This talk focuses on the cross-functional impacts and needs of software observability, including how it can benefit roles such as Product Management, Engineering Management, Customer Success, CTO's office, and development.

Software observability is essential for quickly identifying faults in a system or confirming its fault-free operation. My presentation covers the techniques and supporting data required to accomplish these tasks across cross-functional roles, enabling them to do their jobs more effectively. Each role's depth of information varies, and that changes the corresponding tools, techniques, and pillars of observability that they rely on.

Furthermore, the time to react at each degrading 9 changes the questions we demand, which in turn changes the tools and data we need. This presentation will delve into these concepts and provide a comprehensive understanding of the need for fault analysis, fault tracing, and fault injection.

Let’s wander down memory lane, and revisit all of the strange things we used to do to keep systems alive. Remember the horrible things we used to do to the tail command? File roll-over errors? Staring in horror at failed SSH connections? Well, I do and now, so will you.

Chris is the Developer Advocate for Coralogix and is passionate about all things observability, organizational leadership, and cutting-edge engineering. He’s worked on everything, from internal developer platforms, enormous Kubernetes clusters, embedded systems running industrial batteries on the UK balancing mechanism and more.

Feature flags allow you to enable and disable code without changing or deploying any source code, as well as letting you selectively route traffic to certain users or a percentage of certain users, along with other great tricks. It’s powerful stuff … but when you combine it with observability (the ability to understand the inner workings of your complex systems and other unknown-unknowns), what you get is a supercharged, superpowered version of both. With observability and feature flags, you and your teams get deep technical and business insights in real time about how your code is working, what changed with your last deploy, and how changes are impacting different users, apps, or groups.

In the dynamic realm of modern infrastructure, challenges such as intricate security protocols and managing diverse environments are common across all technical teams. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) emerges as a transformative force, turning these challenges into opportunities for innovation. For developers, SREs, platform engineers, and other technical professionals, this talk showcases how IaC brings unprecedented ease and agility to managing varied infrastructures. The session includes an engaging live demonstration highlighting IaC's adaptability in various scenarios. It explores its potential to unify and empower diverse technical teams. Attendees from all technical backgrounds will discover practical strategies for implementing IaC in their projects, fostering an environment of collaboration and efficiency. Join to see how 'Infrastructure as Code your way' can revolutionize approaches and boost productivity for many technical professions.

We run declarative systems built on top of an imperative operating system. It’s time we simplified our interface for Linux with a declarative API.

Justin is the director of developer relations at Sidero Labs. He helps companies simplify their Kubernetes and Linux infrastructure. He previously helped create Oscar winning movies at Disney, built infrastructure for Disney+, and improved Amazon EKS as part of the product team. In his spare time he builds modern-retro computers and streams Moana on repeat.

Come and explore the landscape of SRE as it is in 2024, with the new trends, techniques and tools on the horizon.