Grafana & Friends Amsterdam Summer Meetup ☀️!

We're thrilled to invite you to our second Grafana & Friends Amsterdam Meetup, just before the summer break ☀️🌴!

Many thanks to our friends from Adyen, who have kindly offered to host us!

📕 Agenda

18.00-18.30 Welcome

18.30 - 20.00 Talks:

• Finding the Needle in the Haystack: How we implemented Tempo to improve Bynder's system observability (Miguel Alexandre, Bynder)
  Last year, Bynder's Developer Experience team decided to ditch APM SaaS products and fully embrace open-source tools to tackle our observability needs.
  In this talk, I will share the reasoning behind the decision to drop a managed APM tool and how we use Tempo to ingest 6 Terabytes of OpenTelemetry data every day from our global multi-region infrastructure without compromising on sampling or durability of traces.
  Moreover, I will describe how we team up Tempo with Thanos and Grafana to extract valuable data and provide a single pane of glass for identifying and fixing performance issues and bugs for a fraction of the costs of your typical APM product.
• Unlocking New Features with Grafana's Latest Migration to Scenes (Alexa Vargas, Grafana Labs)
  Grafana's frontend architecture has undergone a big upgrade. The core dashboards now use the Scenes library.
  Join me as I explain why we made this migration, how it benefits users, and give you a look at the new architecture. Discover the new features and possibilities this upgrade brings to Grafana's future.

20:00 - 21:00 Q&A and Networking

🎙️ Speakers

1. Miguel Alexandre
Miguel is a Staff DevOps Engineer at Bynder, where he works with the Developer Experience team to improve the development practices of the organization.

He prioritizes making observability a low-barrier practice for developers and believes that a good distributed tracing system is essential for debugging and supporting enterprise systems.

2. Alexa Vargas - Tech Lead - Grafana Dashboards
Alexa is the tech lead of the Grafana Dashboards Squad. Throughout her career, she has focused on frontend technologies like React JS. With a strong user focus, she believes technology is a tool to solve problems. Alexa enjoys working with her team in implementing features, fixing bugs, and occasionally losing at GeoGuessr.

🏢 Location
Adyen's office: Rokin 49, 1012 KK Amsterdam

🚨 Access the building
The front desk will confirm your RSVP using the name and surname you shared in the RSVP. We advise you to bring your ID in case you need it to enter the building.

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎉!