"Startups are defined by “ship or die”. As a result, SRE teams at a startup should be focused on enabling product engineers to ship features as quickly as possible. As your startup transitions from “we’ll run out of money in the next 18 months” to “we have more than 1000 engineers”, how should the SRE organization evolve and provide the best value through that transition (including booting one up if you don’t have one)? I will discuss specific ways the organization needs to evolve to meet this challenge, how the SRE org can advocate for and support this change (both in direct actions and in “influence”), and how the overhang of startup technical and cultural debt can make this shift more challenging (but also more necessary).

Artificial intelligence has captured the attention of the world, with tools like ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) driving the conversation. But you don’t need to wait for the future or new features powered by LLMs to start working smarter—the tech industry has been investing in intelligent, automated tools for years and they’re ready for production now. In this talk, you’ll learn how the engineering teams at Toyota Connected use tools like Datadog Watchdog, Anomaly Detection, and Workflows to make our lives easier and keep our platform stable.

Before Datadog was a widely adopted SaaS platform, it was a tool developed to solve our founders’ own monitoring needs. As technology-oriented people, we often build solutions for our own problems, then discover those problems are widespread. But how do you know when your solution should be something more? In this panel session, we’ll talk with tech startup founders to hear their stories and advice for turning tools into businesses.

From the application layer down to your Kubernetes® infrastructure, Cisco Cloud Native Application Observability delivers cross-domain visibility with correlated MELT data and AI/ML-driven insights to simplify the complexity of observing the performance of modern applications, multi-cloud Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Join Nica and Pranay as we discuss architecting and collecting data with the OpenTelemetry Collector. We discuss using Apache Kafka queues to handle OTLP data, and why you probably shouldn't push OTel data straight to Postgres.

Check out this YouTube video on Elastic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and its integration with OpenTelemetry for.NET! In this informative and practical tutorial, we delve into the world of APM and demonstrate how to effectively instrument your.NET applications using OpenTelemetry with Elastic APM. Additional Resources: Connect with us on social media.