From Incidents to Initiatives: SRE Observability and Platform Success Factors

THIS MEETUP WILL BE IN PERSON <> SPONSORED BY SUSE

What to expect:

🗣️ Two or Three speakers

👥 Meet old and new friends from the community

🍕 Free food

🎉 Open-end and free drinks afterwards

✔️ Just RSVP!

Agenda:

• 17:30 - Doors open
• 18:00 - Welcome
• 18:05 - 🗣️ Gabriel Stein - From Deployment to Incident Management: How Observability Empowers SREs
• 18:45 - Break
• 19:00 - 🗣️ Felix Hochleitner - 13 reasons why your platform initiate might be failing!
• 19:55 - 🎉 Open-end

🧑‍💻 Speakers:

Gabriel Stein - Solutions Architect at SUSE

Gabriel Ferraz Stein, Solutions Architect at SUSE, brings over 25 years of expertise in infrastructure, containers, and security. Focused on empowering partners across the DACH region, Gabriel provides insights and strategies for successful Kubernetes adoption and observability. His experience spans the full lifecycle of IT operations and automation, enabling organizations to optimize deployment workflows, enhance system reliability, and streamline incident management.

Gabriel's session

This session explores how observability can revolutionize the daily work of SREs and DevOps teams by providing end-to-end visibility and actionable insights to improve deployment, automation, and incident response processes. Through best practices and real-world examples, attendees will discover how observability transforms CI/CD pipelines, enhances service reliability, and empowers organizations to proactively identify and resolve potential issues.

Felix Hochleitner - Lead Cloud Engineer at squer

Felix's session

Many organizations embark on internal developer platforms with big hopes, only to hit friction after the first wins. This talk distills patterns behind stalled initiatives — not to point fingers, but to illuminate how expectations, adoption, and operating models drift. It doesn't matter where on your platform journey you are, whether you just heard about platform engineering and want to get started, or your platform is in the middle of failing:

This talk will highlight common pitfalls and reasons for failure and talk about the steps you can take to help your platform take off

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Location:

SQUER Solutions (NEW OFFICE!), Althanstraße 4/3/63, 1090, Wien

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