DevOpsDays Barcelona

On May 7th, we'll meet again for a couple of insightful talks, hosted by Dynatrace!

📍Location: Avda Diagonal 211 - 14th floor, Torre Glòries, Barcelona | https://maps.app.goo.gl/22q31ECkaW7BzDMD8
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📅 Agenda

• 18:30 - 18:40 Welcome from the hosts
• 18:45 - 19:30 "The microservices kool-aid and what that means for SREs"
• 19:30 - 20:15 "Observability in the AI-Native DevOps Age"
• 20:15 - 21:00 Networking & Snacks

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🎤 Talks & Speakers

• Title: "The microservices kool-aid and what that means for SREs"
• Speaker: Csaba Almási - Staff Platform Engineer at Neonomics.
• Duration: 30-45 mins
• Abstract: For years, the industry has treated microservices as the default architecture for any scaling project, but for SREs, this "Kool-Aid" often comes with a bitter aftertaste. This session moves past the hype to examine the true operational tax of service proliferation, specifically focusing on how fragmented architectures drive up observability costs and create silent performance bottlenecks through network overhead and resource contention. We will dive deep into the technical signals that reveal a "distributed monolith"—a system that shares the complexity of microservices but retains the rigid coupling of a legacy app—and provide a rubric for identifying when an architecture has become more of a liability than an asset.
  Beyond the theory, we’ll explore practical guidelines for determining when to actually decompose a monolith and, perhaps more importantly, when to move in the opposite direction. Using real-world examples from the field, we will walk through the architecture and design decisions behind both successful service extractions and strategic consolidations of over-engineered distributed systems. You’ll walk away with a framework for balancing technical depth with operational sanity, ensuring your architecture evolves based on performance data rather than industry trends.
• About: Csaba Almási is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Neonomics, where he focuses on building reliable platforms and maximizing the business impact of observability. With extensive experience in SRE and distributed systems, he specializes in bridging the gap between technical architecture and operational efficiency in the fintech sector.

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• Title: "Observability in the AI-Native DevOps Age"
• Speaker: Andreas (Andi) Grabner - CNCF Ambassador, Book Co-Author, and Fellow DevRel at Dynatrace
• Duration: 30-45 mins
• Abstract: AI is here to stay!
  The question is: How to make it an efficient DevOps partner for the human to build, test and operate software?
  The answer is simple: Just like humans, the AI can use observability to understand and optimize the impact of generated and deployed code and configuration.
  In this talk you learn the path through three important lessons on how observability as you know it is changing to become useful for the Human and the AI as we enter the AI-Native Age.
  1. The Observability Primer: “What’s different in observing an app, an AI or a workflow?"
  2. The AI Delivery Lifecycle: “How can my AI becomes better with observability?”
  3. Cost and Impact: “How can we speed up while staying within budget?”
  You will walk away and know how to best apply open standards like OpenTelemetry and OpenLLMetry to get insights and optimize your own usage of AI. Whether its for coding, automation or to provide it as a business feature!
• About: Andreas Grabner has 20+ 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, a contributor to the CNCF project keptn, a Co-Author of Platform Engineering for Architects, and a Fellow DevRel at Dynatrace.
  Andreas is also a regular contributor to the DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Native communities 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!

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🔑 Important Access Note
Our host requires the attendees to provide their ID to grant us access to their offices. Do not forget to fill in the "NIF - NIE - Passport" field when registering, and do not forget to bring your ID!