Optimizing, Tracing, Performance, and Insights for K8

Thank you to Causely, Grafana, and groundcover, our sponsors this time around.

As usual:

1. RSVP's close 48 hrs before the event. Please make it easy on us by RSVP'ing only if you intend to show up.
2. Don't be late! You'll get locked out, and it's cold outside!
   ===

Agenda

6:00 pm: food / drinks / networking
6:20 pm: Talk #1: Observability, eBPF, State of Cloud, with Noam Levy
7:00 pm: Who is hiring? Who is looking?
7:10 pm: Talk #2: It’s the Hitchhiker's Guide to OpenTelemetry, with Shawn Pitts
7:50 pm: Talk #3: No-Instrumentation Tracing & Instant Root Cause on K8s, with Oved Laurie
8:30 pm: Finish

===

Speakers & topics
1. Observability, eBPF, State of Cloud, with Noam Levy
Traditional SaaS-based observability solutions come with major challenges: unpredictable costs, fragmented tooling, and vendor lock-in.
In this session, we’ll introduce the B.O.S.S paradigm - Bring your own cloud, One-stop shop, Standardized, and Self-reliant - outlining a modern approach to observability that prioritizes cost efficiency, data sovereignty, open standards, and next-generation technologies like eBPF.

2. It’s the Hitchhiker's Guide to OpenTelemetry, with Shawn Pitts
Software powers the world but also needs to be kept healthy. That means knowing what’s happening under the hood before small issues become big problems. In this talk, we’ll explore the galaxy of OpenTelemetry, the open standard for collecting logs, metrics, and traces that help you monitor and troubleshoot your systems. So whether you run massive Kubernetes clusters or you’re just curious about software as a whole you’ll walk away with practical examples, a few new tricks, and maybe even a towel.

3. No-Instrumentation Tracing & Instant Root Cause on K8s, with Oved Laurie
Kubernetes unlocks the power of eBPF, enabling codeless tracing without touching a single line of your code. In this session, we’ll show how to capture service-to-service traces instantly with Beyla and apply AI-driven Bayesian network analysis to uncover the true root cause of issues across your microservices. No code changes, no manual configuration, just clear answers, fast.

About our sponsors
Causely, assures continuous application performance and service reliability. Our Causal Reasoning Platform automatically captures cause and effect relationships based on real-time, dynamic data across the entire application environment.

Grafana Labs, provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization.

groundcover, is a cloud application monitoring solution that reinvents the domain with eBPF 🐝 . Built for modern production environments, it enables teams to instantly monitor everything they build and run in the cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale. Collect logs, metrics and traces instantly with eBPF, and store them inCloud, on your infrastructure, managed by us.

Hybrid/Remote option

Sorry, this event is in-person only, so please join us in Cambridge!