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From Dashboard Soup to Observability Lasagna: Building Better Layers
Martha Lambert shares the "Observability Lasagna" framework, explaining how her team replaced "dashboard soup" with a user-centric stack to achieve high system reliability for their on-call product.
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Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments
Tom Akehurst discusses how API mocking and simulation can solve microservice decoupling and productivity problems at scale, using observability, contract testing, and GenAI as guardrails.
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Why Observability Matters (More!) with AI Applications
Sally O'Malley shares how to build an AI observability stack with open-source tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Tempo, vLLM/Llama Stack). Learn to track performance, quality and cost signals.
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High-Resolution Platform Observability
Brian Martin discusses high-resolution platform observability, highlighting how traditional metrics can be misleading and how to gain deeper system insights.
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Lessons Learned in the Financial Market about Performance and Observability in Front-End Projects
Jessica Felix discusses how to navigate the intricate balance between performance and observability, and the challenges of maintaining equilibrium.
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Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices
Martin Thwaites introduces outside-in testing, how to use Observability techniques in a local development to build applications that are easier to debug locally and run as a first class citizen.
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Survival Strategies for the Noisy Neighbor Apocalypse
Meenakshi Jindal discusses experience and lessons learned with a case study from the Asset Management Platform at Netflix about how they detected and survived a noisy neighbor.
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Reliable Architectures through Observability
Kent Quirk shows an overview of observability tools and techniques, and specific recommendations for how to fit observability into their system designs and day-to-day development process.
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The Shape of Thoughts: How to Create Visual Templates to Bring Clarity, Context and Change to You and Your Teams!
Gemma Honour discusses how simple shapes can shape thinking, and break down difficult problems into something that is manageable and approachable.
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From Monitoring to Observability: eBPF Chaos
Michael Friedrich discusses the learning steps with eBPF and traditional metrics monitoring and future Observability data collection, storage and visualization.
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Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry
Daniel Gomez Blanco shares his experience leading a large-scale observability initiative at Skyscanner, based on the adoption of OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services.
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Sprinkling eBPF onto Your Observability
Frederic Branczyk discusses the eBPF's capabilities. Beyond that, Branczyk will demonstrate the real-world use of eBPF in next-generation Observability tooling.