Open Source Observability and Internal Developer Portals

Join us online to learn best practices in observability and platform engineering.

Session #1: Unveiling Performance Mysteries : Playing Sherlock Holmes with Jaegar

Talk Abstract: In this talk, we will explore the importance of Observability as a practice in software engineering and how we can use Jaegar's detective prowess to visualise performance, identify latency spikes and detect anomalies. Jaegar is an open source tool based on open telemetry observability standards. We will have a demo to showcase this in a polyglot microsevices ecosystem.

Speaker: Baltazar Chua, Technical Architect, CACIB

Speaker Bio: IT professional with over two decades of experience, including a decade in banking and currently serving as a Technical Architect at Credit Agricole CIB. Passionate about designing event driven architecture, Microsevices using language like Rust, Golang and Java, as well as cutting-edge container technologies like Kubernetes. In my free time, I contribute to open source projects like MicroK8s and KEDA, demonstrating my commitment to pushing boundaries and sharing knowledge.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/baltazar-chua/

Session #2: Building an Internal Developer Portal with Backstage

Talk Abstract: “Shift Left” is the catch-cry of the modern technology team. Every discipline, from UX to design to security to QA to system administration wants to make sure that applications are developed with best practices baked in from the start. But to developers, finding out what best practice is, what is currently used in the tech stack, and which tools to connect into an application takes a lot of searching, reading and asking. In this talk, we introduce Backstage, developed by Spotify’s engineering team to address this challenge, and open sourced it under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Part 1: Concept, Components and Data Model

Speaker: Jon Scheele, Founder at Blue Connector, and organiser, apidays Singapore and Platform Engineers Singapore

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scheelejon/

Part 2: Deployment and Live Demo

Speaker: Remya Praveen, Co-Founder and Senior Analyst at Roboautl

https://www.linkedin.com/in/remya-praveen/

Timings (Bangkok time):

6:00pm Introduction

6:05pm Presentations and Q&A

7:30pm Wrap-up