Designing Grafana App Platform: Kubernetes Patterns for Application APIs

Designing Grafana App Platform: Kubernetes Patterns for Application APIs

Agenda:

• 5.30 pm - Welcome, Food, and Networking: food and beverages will be served
• 6.00pm - Guest Presentation - Designing Grafana App Platform: Kubernetes Patterns for Application APIs by Stephanie Hingtgen, Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
• 6.30 pm - Q&A and Networking: time to have more drinks, ask all your questions, and make connections with the Denver API community

About the presentation:
Grafana is undergoing a significant architectural evolution—transforming itself into an observability application platform. This talk will dive into how we’re leveraging Kubernetes API machinery to structure, version, and expose our internal APIs, and how those APIs are now aggregated and surfaced through a centralized API server. We'll walk through implementation details, show concrete examples, and explore the trade-offs that come with this approach.

About our guest speaker: Stephanie Hingtgen
Stephanie is a backend software engineer working on App Platform. Prior to working on app platform, she was working on Grafana Cloud, including Private Data Source Connect. Stephanie has a masters degree in computer science and previously worked on IP video solutions and machine learning to detect cancer.

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