Devoxx UK 2025: Meet the New Kid in the Sandbox - Integrating Visualization with Prometheus (slides + recording)

Today, as previously posted, I was on stage at Devoxx UK in London. 

Over the years I've spoken at the Belgian and UK versions of Devoxx events. I've shared on topics covering application development, developer productivity, cloud development, and architecture. 

My last appearance was at Devoxx UK in 2022, so it was really fun to be back again in London with a topic near to my heart. I shared some good basic insights into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox level visualization and dashboard project.

This session is a lot of fun to explore and includes access to a free online project sandbox where you can play with the tooling. Not only that, you can make use of the free online workshop where you build everything hands-on from scratch and learn about the Perses dashboard and visualization experience.

Below I'll share my slides and the recording when available.

Cloud Native London Meetup: Mastering Fluent Bit - Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry (slides + recording)

As previously posted, I spoke today at the Cloud Native London meetup on the topic of mastering Fluent Bit. 

I really like the organization and the consistently high volume of smart attendees to test out my ideas. Again they proved why it's so fun to share my integration story with them about Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.

 Below you will find my slides from this evening, a link to the live stream that captured all my live demoing of Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus all working seamlessly together!

Mastering Fluent Bit: Installing and Configuring Fluent Bit on Kubernetes

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, installing and configuring Fluent Bit on a Kubernetes cluster.

Tech Meetup Glasgow - Mastering Fluent Bit: Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry (slides)

Today I was with my friends at the Tech Meetup in Glasgow, where I mentioned previously I'd be bringing a hands-on session on mastering Fluent Bit.

Last time over a year ago I was here to share insights into OpenTelemetry, but this time I wanted to bring a new project to the stage: Fluent Bit.

This meetup started in the Edinburgh area, but expanded into the Glasgow tech community. It welcomes people with all levels of experience, even if you are starting your journey into tech as a student, boot camper, or you're thinking of starting your development career, you are more than welcome.

I spent the evening sharing an introduction to Fluent Bit pipelines and OpenTelemetry Collector and most of the session on live demoing the complete integration story to showcase it from front to back.

My slides from the talk are available online below.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Installing and Configuring Fluent Bit using Container Images

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, installing and configuring Fluent Bit using container images.

Cloud Native Los Angeles: Observability-as-a-Service (slides)

As mentioned previously, Graziano Casto and I presented an online session for the Cloud Native Los Angeles meetup. We shared our thoughts on the subject of Observability-as-a-Service as related to when Platform Engineering and SRE teams work together. 

The CNCF's Los Angeles (LA) community group represents the LA cloud native community and aims to promote and champion CNCF and open source technology as well as help network and collaborate. To that end, we are contributing whole heartedly!

By combining our personal experiences and expertise in Platform Engineering and Cloud Native Observability, we think this session provides good insights into how one can leverage the two disciplines to better our developer team's experiences.

We had a small live audience, but the talk was recorded, so I'm sharing our slide deck, the talk abstract, and the recording when it's available.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Installing Fluent Bit from Source

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 it's 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 a the topic of this article, installing Fluent Bit from the project source code.

Cloud Native London Meetup: Mastering Fluent Bit - Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry

Back on 7 Aug 2024 I was to speak at the Cloud Native London meetup, having been given the opportunity to present due to a speaker canceling at the last minute. I really like the organization and the consistently high volume of smart attendees to test out my ideas, so I was really excited to share an integration story with them about Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.

Instead, there was an evacuation of the area due to expected riots in the UK and the event was cancelled.

Fast-forward, it's now finally going to happen on 7 May 2025 with a more polished version than I would have brought back in the late summer of 2024. 

Tech Meetup Glasgow - Mastering Fluent Bit: Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry

The last time I was in Glasgow was for the Tech Meetup in July 2024. I spent the evening sharing the basics of OpenTelemetry and provided hands-on workshop content for all attendees to try out at home.

On 1 May 2025 I'm headed back to the Tech Meetup Glasgow, but this time I'm going to take them on a live demo ride with Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry!

The meetup started in the Edinburgh area, but has also expanded into the Glasgow tech community. It welcomes people with all levels of experience, even if you are starting your journey into tech as a student, boot camper, or you're thinking of starting your development career, you are more than welcome.

I'm going to be sharing an introduction to Fluent Bit pipelines and OpenTelemetry Collector, then live demo the complete integration story to showcase it from front to back.

Cloud Native Los Angeles: Observability-as-a-Service

On Friday, 11 April 2025 both Graziano Casto and I will be presenting an online session for the Cloud Native Los Angeles meetup, sharing our thoughts on the subject of Observability-as-a-Service. 

The CNCF's Los Angeles (LA) community group represents the LA cloud native community and aims to promote and champion CNCF and open source technology as well as help network and collaborate. To that end, we are contributing whole heartedly!

By combining our personal experiences and expertise in Platform Engineering and Cloud Native Observability, we think this session provides good insights into how one can leverage the two disciplines to better our developer team's experiences.

Join us on this journey.

Cloud Native Rejekts London: Mastering Fluent Bit - Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry (slides + video)

Today, as previously mentioned, I presented a fun hands-on session at Cloud Native Rejekts in London. 

This event was started by a Netherlands based organization, hence the unique Dutch spelling of the word rejekts, and is meant to be a second chance for talks not accepted into the main CNCF event.In the past I've spoken at the North American event sharing a session on Perses, and at the European event sharing OpenTelemetry insights. 

Today I shared a live demo session focused on integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry. Below you will find the session recording (video), slides and abstract.

SREDay London 2025: When Platform Engineers meet SREs (slides)

 Today as previously mentioned, with my co-presenter Graziano Casto, we've shared our story at SREday London.

This event is two days and focused on Site Reliability, DevOps, and Cloud with three tracks of talks. The venue will be the Everyman Canary Wharf, a rather hip location for this event and should be a lot of fun meeting with attendees and speakers.

This collaboration story is about bringing observability to the foundations of your developer experience, ensuring it's a first class citizen in the platforms you are engineering from day one while discovering that it's giving SREs their super powers.

Below you will find the slides, the abstract, and our thanks for attending this event. 

SREDay London 2025: When Platform Engineers meet SREs

I'm going to be at SREday London from 27-28 Mar 2025 with my co-presenter Graziano Casto, developer relations engineer at Mia-Platform sharing a platform engineering meets SRE story.

This event is two days and focused on Site Reliability, DevOps, and Cloud with three tracks of talks. The venue will be the Everyman Canary Wharf, a rather hip location for this event and should be a lot of fun meeting with attendees and speakers.

Graziano and I met a few years ago at Platmosphere and we've since been sharing topics of platform engineering and observability. This has led us to several events, including SREDay in Amsterdam last year and now London this year!

Below you will find the abstract for the story we plan to share.