SRECon Eu 2025 - The Executive Signal (slides)

 "SREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the profession as well as those who have been involved in it for decades. The conference has a culture of critical thought, deep technical insights, continuous improvement, and innovation."

Today I shared some insights into the executive signal and gave some important tips that everyone can use to cut through the noise and drive change. Below I share the slides from my talk.

Cloud Native Manchester: Exploring the Power of Open Source Telemetry Pipelines, Fluent Bit Edition (slides)

 

As I mentioned previously, I was going to speak in June at Cloud Native Manchester, but due to transit strikes in my country I was unable to make the trip over to Manchester. 

The meetup is described as, "A Northern outpost for all things Cloud Native - from Kubernetes to Etcd and everything in between... If you're interested in container orchestration and all its surrounding ecosystem, then we welcome you onboard!"

Tonight I shared a rather ambitious session where, after introducing the concepts of telemetry pipelines, I let the meetup attendees choose from a list of five examples (demo scenarios). I then proceeded to share live on stage the details of how things work; Fluent Bit pipelines, integration with OpenTelemetry, integration with Prometheus, controlling logs in a Kubernetes cluster, and AI observability. 

As promised, I wanted to share both the slides and talk details below.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Output Plugins for Developers

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. 

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, using Fluent Bit tips for developers. In case you missed the previous article, check out the top 3 telemetry pipeline input plugins for developers where you get tips on the best of Fluent Bit for your developer experiences.

This article will be a hands-on tour of the things that help you as a developer testing out your Fluent Bit pipelines. We'll take a look at the top three output plugins for your telemetry pipeline configuration.

SRECon EU 2025 - The Executive Signal

"SREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the profession as well as those who have been involved in it for decades. The conference has a culture of critical thought, deep technical insights, continuous improvement, and innovation."

This is SRECon25 EU and with it being in Dublin from 7-9 Oct this year, I couldn't resist submitting a few of my cloud native observability ideas. They had the entire spectrum of session types, including lightning talks, so I pushed in a few for each category.

The final selection was a few weeks back and for the second time, they seem keen to see one of my lightning talks. Let's see what they found to be the most interesting idea I pushed in for their call for papers.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Input Plugins for Developers

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. 

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, using Fluent Bit tips for developers. In case you missed the previous article, check out the developers guide to service section configuration where you get tips on making the most of your developer inner loop with Fluent Bit.

This article will be a hands-on tour of the things that help you as a developer testing out your Fluent Bit pipelines. We'll take a look at the input plugin section of a developers telemetry pipeline configuration.

Cloud Native Rejekts NA 2025 - Expanding Your Toolbox: Beginners Guide to Controlling Kubernetes Logs

One of the really fun events around the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) flagship event KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is Cloud Native Rejekts. This event started by a Netherlands based organization, hence the unique Dutch spelling of the word rejects, and is meant to be a second chance for talks not accepted into the main CNCF event.

I love the idea of second chances and believe many of the talks given at Cloud Native Rejekts should have been in the main event. Since my transfer from the application development domains to the cloud native observability domain more than three years ago, I've never missed a single CFP for this event. 

In the past I've shared observability topics in a session on Perses,  a session providing OpenTelemetry insights, and a session on integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry including a live demo. For Rejekts NA I've been accepted for a cloud native story helping developers gain control of their logs in Kubernetes environments while within their inner development loop.

 Below you will find the session title, abstract, and location details for this London based event.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Developer Guide to Telemetry Pipeline Service Configuration

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. 

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, using Fluent Bit tips and tricks for developers. In case you missed the previous article, check out using a Fluent Bit pipeline on a Kubernetes cluster to take control of all the logs being generated.

This article will be a hands-on tour of the things that help you as a developer testing out your Fluent Bit pipelines. We'll take a look at the services section of a developers telemetry pipeline configuration.

Cloud Native Manchester: Exploring the Power of Open Source Telemetry Pipelines, Fluent Bit Edition

I was going to speak in June at the Cloud Native Manchester meetup, but due to transit strikes in my country I was unable to make the trip over to Manchester. 

The meetup is described as, "A Northern outpost for all things Cloud Native - from Kubernetes to Etcd and everything in between... If you're interested in container orchestration and all its surrounding ecosystem, then we welcome you onboard!"

I love a new meetup and was super happy to be asked to speak, especially on my favorite topic, Fluent Bit! After discussing with the organizers what to do with my cancelled speaking slot, we optioned for me coming at the next meetup to be scheduled in September. 

So let's take a look at the coming event in September, tentatively set for Sep 25.

All Things Open 2025 - Cloud Metrics: The Cost-Value Equation

I missed the 2024 All Things Open, having last spoken in 2023, but I'm back this year at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC! 

I've always been a regular visitor to the All Things Open conferences, as they have a rock start organization since they started and put on a great annual event in the city of Raleigh. This year is the 13th edition and I've only been absent for a few across the pandemic years.

The selection committee was kind enough to select one of my favorite topics that I've been working on to address different audiences, but that helps you personally tell your stories effectively and move people to action.

Let's look at the abstract and details of my session.