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Presenters Pavel Strobl Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Embrace the “Why Not?” Mindset: Building Exporters for Everything 🤖 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s talk about something incredibly rewarding – building exporters. This wasn’t a deeply technical presentation, but rather a passionate plea to observe, experiment, and create. The speaker’s core message? Don’t get bogged down in “why” – ask “why not?” Instead, focus on what you enjoy, and then find ways to expose metrics from those passions. 💡 ...

Presenters Roman Khavronenko Source PromCon EU 2025 🕵️‍♀️ Unmasking the Truth: Debugging Queries with Row Data Samples 🚀 Hey everyone! 👋 As a tech blogger, I love diving deep into the nitty-gritty of how systems work. Today, we’re tackling a surprisingly complex issue: the discrepancy between what you see in monitoring tools like Prometheus and Victoria Metrics and what’s actually happening in your database. Let’s explore how viewing row samples can be your secret weapon for troubleshooting. ...

Presenters Virginia Diana Todea Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding Platform Engineering: It’s Not About the Answers, It’s About the Questions 🤯 Hey everyone! 👋 Diana here, a Developer Experience Engineer at Victoria Metrics, and let me tell you, I’ve been wrestling with a big question lately. A question that kept me up at night, fueled by cold sweats and philosophical pondering. It’s a question that, frankly, I didn’t even know I needed to ask. So, what is platform engineering? 🤔 ...

Presenters David Whitney Ian Cooper Hannes Lowette Source GOTO podcast Beyond the Ivory Tower: Redefining Software Architecture for the Real World 🚀 The term “architecture” in software development can feel like a loaded gun, conjuring images of rigid control or, conversely, complete anarchy. But what if we reframed it? What if, instead of a restrictive edifice, architecture was about building systems that can thrive, adapt, and evolve? That’s the exciting conversation we’re diving into today, thanks to insights from David Whitney (Director of Architecture at New Day London) and Ian Cooper (Senior Principal Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway). 💡 ...

Presenters Jonathan Catrell Source Developer Tea podcast Ego: The Silent Saboteur of Your Career Growth 🚀 Hey there, driven developers! 👋 Are you feeling stuck? Like you’re hitting a wall in your career, or maybe you’ve even faced a layoff or a stagnant job situation? You’re not alone. For over a decade, Developer Tea has been on a mission to help folks like you find clarity, perspective, and purpose in their professional journeys. And today, we’re kicking off a brand new series: The Career Growth Accelerator! ⚡️ ...