Welcome & Opening Keynote

Description: Observability into telemetry data has become paramount. Like Deadpool, it takes some convincing to motivate unlikely heroes to save the world. The same is true of gaining excitement for observability in a corporation deeply rooted in legacy. In this electrifying talk, you will learn how to build and grow an Observability community Deadpool style. Let’s F’ing go! Join us as we delve into the necessary components of creating, growing and maintaining an observability community in the Energy sector. - Talk presented by Khallai Taylor, Sr. Observability & Monitoring Engineer | O11Y Community Manager at E.ON -

Description: This session presents a case study from Sonatel, a large telecom company, handling hundreds of millions of daily API requests. Kubernetes offers advanced deployment strategies like Canary and A/B Testing. These strategies test new features against real-time user requests, allowing for early detection of issues and preventing large-scale outages. This capability reduces stress for operations teams during releases. -Talk presented by Aliou Ba, founder at Clouddoor -

Description; In this talk Divine, will discuss how Severalnines implemented a scalable, public DBaaS for open-source databases on Openstack for cloud service providers (CSPs). Attendees will learn practical considerations for native Kubernetes Control Plane (CP) infrastructure design and get pointers on how to build integrations between the CP and Openstack from authentication to day 2 operations automation.

• Talk presented by Divine Odazie, Technology Evangelist at Serveralnines -

Description: In this talk, we'll explore the exciting world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) by likening it to surfing the waves. Just as surfers need skill, balance, and the right equipment to ride the waves successfully, software developers need the right tools and practices to navigate the complexities of CI/CD. - Talk presented by Chamod Perera, Software Engineering Consultant at Macro Labs -

Description: My talk will explore how adopting open source observability for a private cloud environment was a challenging task but not impossible. I will deep dive in how we implemented Grafana and Prometheus metrics to work with private cloud and shape our entire Observability to work with a hybrid setup between private and public cloud. -Talk presented by Diana Todea, sr. Site Reliability Engineer at EQS Group -

10 minute break

Description: This talk will delve into the evolution of cloud native security, tracing its journey from pre-cloud native approaches to the current state of eBPF-powered security observability. We will explore how this technology is transforming our ability to secure modern cloud native environments by providing unparalleled visibility and control. - Talk presented by Paul Arah, Community Builder Security at Isovalent -

Description: Platform Engineering focuses on empowering developers and organizations by creating and maintaining internal software products known as platforms. In this talk, we will explore what platforms are, why they are important, and uncover best practices for creating and maintaining well-architected platforms. -Talk presented by Pitor Zaniewski, Engineering Enablement at Loft Labs Inc -

Description: My talk, "The Art of Deception: Uncovering Social Engineering Threats in Cloud-Native Environments," shines a light on how attackers manipulate people to breach even the most secure cloud systems. We will explore real-world examples of these tactics and provide actionable strategies to defend against them. - Talk presented by Victor Onyenagubom, Lecturer at Teesside University -

Description: One year ago, we deployed our SSO using Azure App Services and Azure Pipelines. Now we use semi-automatic releases driven by ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts. During this session, we will explore how we have managed this migration process without downtime in a critical mission software with more than 90 million active users but also explaining why we have chosen these tools and what problems we've faced with. - Talk presented by Jorge Turrado, Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Lidl International hub & Alfonso Ming, Site Reliability Engineer at Lidl International hub -

10 minute break

Description: Expedia Group's journey to implement GitOps with ArgoCD is a story of innovation, scalability, and overcoming challenges. Our GitOps journey involved migrating from KubeFed to ArgoCD, focusing on extensive scalability testing across hundreds of virtual clusters, set up using open source tool, vcluster. We proactively identified potential challenges and prepared comprehensive test cases tailored to different application flavors. -Talk presented by Shivani Mehrotra, Platform Engineer at Expedia & Mohit Kumar, sr. DevOps Engineer at Coforge-

Description: I've always thought Batman would be an amazing Enterprise Architect. The way he sees Gotham, create solutions to take out the bad guys, and the many tools he has in his Utility Belt. He's constantly thinking about the bigger picture and how everything moves while staying focused on the mission at hand. A bit like an architect's mindset. Process Orchestration allows you to design, implement, and then execute Processes that tie your People and Systems together. Let’s see how it changes those early Architecture review conversations and helps the Business and IT connect with the same language! - Talk presented by Jacob Plicque, sr. Developer Advocate at Camunda -

Description: As Argo Workflows and Argo Events continue to gain popularity for their powerful capabilities in event-driven automation and complex job orchestration, this presentation will delve into how we used this architecture to process millions of records daily. You will gain insights into the specific architecture that integrates Argo Events and Argo Workflows to achieve efficient data aggregation and ingestion. We will discuss the challenges encountered during this process and share the strategies we employed to overcome these issues. Attendees will also learn how we use techniques like "Work avoidance" to ensure we don't redo the work. - Talk presented by Siri Varma Vegiraju, sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft -