📣 Observability with DevOps Lisbon & Cloud Native Lisbon

We’re back with another community meetup and this time we’re diving deep into the world of Observability, at the Riskified Offices @ IDEA Spaces!

Join DevOps Lisbon and Cloud Native Lisbon for an evening packed with insights, practical lessons, and stories from engineers building reliable, scalable systems that don’t break under pressure.

🗓️ Date: November 11th, 2025
🕡 Time: 18:30
📍 Venue: Riskified @ IDEA Spaces

📅 Agenda

18:00 - Check-in, food, drinks & networking

19:00 – Opening & Community & Sponsor Intro – DevOps Lisbon & Cloud Native Lisbon & Riskified

🎤 Talk 1: Increasing Scalability and Reliability on OpenTelemetry with Kafka
👨‍💻 Marcel Araujo – Senior DevOps Engineer at Riskified
When organizations scale to thousands of microservices and millions of events per second, observability stacks often become the weakest link. That single OpenTelemetry Collector? It can turn into a bottleneck fast.
Marcel will show how combining OpenTelemetry with Kafka transforms observability pipelines improving reliability, reducing latency, and ensuring data resilience even under heavy load.

🎤 Talk 2: Good Observability is not a coincidence: It’s a Strategy.
👩‍💻 Iris Dyrmishi – Senior Observability Engineer at Miro & CNCF Ambassador
Good telemetry data won’t just appear out of nowhere — and false positives don’t fix themselves. Building solid observability is a strategy, not luck. Iris will explore how combining the right tools, architecture, and a culture of shared ownership can create resilient observability platforms that cut through the noise and surface real insights.

20:30 – 🍕 Pizza, Drinks & Networking

Stick around for great conversations, a cold drink, and maybe a few war stories from production.

Big thanks to our hosts at Riskified @ IDEA Spaces for making this edition possible 🙏

We can’t wait to see you there 👋