DevOps Vancouver Meetup - May 2022

Join us at 6PM on May 31 for the next exciting edition of the DevOps Vancouver Meetup, featuring Andre's DevOps nuggets and two presentations.

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Session 1 - Grafana+Prometheus and demo of Loki and Tempo

In this talk, William Wong and Tom Trieu from Grafana Labs will be covering:

1. Introduction to Grafana Labs and their Big Tent philosophy
2. Correlation demo between Prometheus (Metrics), Loki (Logs), and Tempo (Traces)
3. And a tracing demo to find bugs in an application without the developer!

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 2,000 Grafana Labs customers including Bloomberg, eBay, PayPal, and Sony, and more than 1,000,000 active installations of Grafana around the globe.

Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud, or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting and security, scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo). Grafana Labs is backed by leading investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, GIC, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, and J.P. Morgan.

• Session Category: Technical
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomtrieu
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wongwilliam

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Session 2: Back To The Future With Security Automation

In this session Kevin Schwantje will dive into how to get back to the basics with application security, but in a modern automated way! Let’s explore together what you should automate, what you shouldn’t, and how to get there. Bring your questions and suggestions!

Kevin is a cybersecurity engineer currently in the world of cloud and application security. He’s worked in various IT roles for a decade now, and has done everything from national defense project security to virtual network engineering. He currently specializes in web app penetration testing, defensible security architecture, and DevSecOps practices and security automation. He’s a huge fan of PowerShell, Azure DevOps, collaboration, and coffee.

• Session category: Challenges of DevOps Implementations
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/604kev
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinschwantje

Both sessions will, as always, be followed by a Q&A session.
See you at the event!