Your Internal Developer Platform lives in two worlds. In the Right Side Up, developers rely on self‑service observability and resiliency to build, deploy, operate and debug their apps. In the Upside Down, the platform itself must be observable to ensure its reliability, performance, resiliency and to understand usage patterns and adoption. The twist? these two worlds are not separate. Improving observability and resiliency of the platform directly improves the observability and resiliency for the applications built on top of it. Just like in Stranger Things, observability and resiliency becomes the bridge that connects both realities In this talk you learn real-world OpenTelemetry-based best practices to observe the core layers of your platform such as your Git, Argo, Backstage and k8s! You learn how to derive SLOs from that data to increase resiliency for your platform and the apps and services deployed through your platform!
Andreas Grabner (@grabnerandi) has 25+ years of experience as a software developer, tester and architect and is an advocate for high-performing cloud scale applications. He is a CNCF ambassador, contributor to the CNCF project keptn, Co-Author of Platform Engineering for Architects and a Fellow DevRel for Dynatrace. Andreas is also a regular contributor to the DevOps, Platform Engineering and Cloud Native community and a frequent speaker at technology conferences. In his spare time you can most likely find him on one of the salsa dancefloors of the world!
