The Quest for Engineering Excellence: Observability with Grafana & friends

Event:

We would like to invite you to the first Meetup of 2024!

Pipedrive will host the first Grafana & Friends Lisboa from Grafana Labs where we will talk about different use cases of how companies and software enthusiasts use Grafana Labs technologies such as Grafana, Loki, Mimir, and Tempo to achieve Engineering Excellence in the realm of Observability.

We will be having three different talks, followed by a networking session, have some 🍕 and 🍺 while exchanging ideas and engaging with the community.

You can RSVP through this event or in Grafana's own Meetup event:
https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-lisboa/

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Talks & Speakers:

🔈 Talk 1 - How to keep K8s afloat at Pipedrive

• Nelson Gomes, Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Pipedrive
• Patterns and anti-patterns to prevent your cluster from sinking. In this presentation, we’ll discuss problems that affect large applications but also some mitigations and the importance of having good observability using OpenTelemetry and logging available to detect and prevent everyday problems that typically affect complex distributed systems such as Pipedrive

🔈 Talk 2 - Practical CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry

• Giordano Ricci Senior Software Engineering - Grafana Labs
• A reliable CI/CD pipeline is the backbone of every modern project, yet there's limited visibility into its processes. By leveraging OpenTelemetry we want to bring observability to CI/CD pipelines, making the software delivery process fully observable.
  Join our journey redefining CI/CD observability, learn how we are ensuring our pipelines stay reliable, how we identify flakiness, bottlenecks, and how we envision a future where - regardless of your CI or observability solution - your pipelines will be fully observable.

🔈 Talk 3 - Revamping the Observability Stack at PandaDoc

• Nikita Grishko, Staff Software Engineer - PandaDoc
• In this talk, Nikita will take you through PandaDoc’s journey of revamping observability systems with the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir). Discover how PandaDoc moved away from a complex and outdated setup to create a unified, user-friendly observability solution. He will delve into their transition: decisions they made, the implementation steps, and how the LGTM stack transformed the way engineers at PandaDoc monitor and manage their systems, making their product more stable and streamlined.

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Agenda:

18:00 – 🚪 Doors open and initial networking
18:30 – 🔈 Talk 1 by Nelson Gomes, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Pipedrive
19:00 – 🔈 Talk 2 by Giodano Ricci, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
19:30 – 🔈 Talk 3 by Nikita Grishko, Staff Software Engineer at PandaDoc
20:00 – 🍕 Food, drinks and more networking!

Where:

The Meetup will happen in the Pipedrive office at Saldanha!

The presentations will start promptly at 18:30.

The meetup will be photographed and recorded so, it's important to let us know when you arrive if don't want to be included.

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About us:

At Pipedrive we love building great products while having fun doing it!
It all started with a five-person team to a truly international company of over 900 people, representing more than 50 nationalities with ten offices distributed across Europe and the US.
We work daily to be the #1 sales-first CRM and intelligent revenue management platform for small businesses in the world.
Today, Pipedrive is trusted by over 100,000 companies and used in 179 countries.
We have been learning a lot along the way and we started Pipedrive Talks Lisbon to contribute to the community by sharing our learnings and also some of our pitfalls, our unique ways of working, technologies, and systems that fuel Pipedrive daily.
Let's make this journey together. We grow by sharing and learning from each other.
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