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Presenters Raj Dutt Torkel Ödegaard Source GrafanaCon 2026 GrafanaCON Barcelona: A Year of Innovation and the Dawn of Agentic Observability 🚀 GrafanaCON 2024 has landed in Barcelona, and what a kickoff it’s been! This year marks the 10th GrafanaCON, and it’s shaping up to be the biggest and best yet, a far cry from the humble beginnings with just 30 attendees in an office. Grafana Labs co-founders Raj Dutt and Torkel Ödegaard kicked things off with a look back at Grafana’s journey and a thrilling glimpse into the future of observability. ...

Presenters Gergely Orosz Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Token Maximizing: The New (and Bizarre) Metric in Big Tech 🤯 Ever feel like you’re drowning in metrics? Well, buckle up, because the tech world has a new, and frankly, wild one: token maximizing. Gergely Orosz, the brilliant mind behind The Pragmatic Engineer, dropped some serious insights on this phenomenon, and it’s a story that’s both hilarious and a little bit terrifying. ...

Presenters Tuomas Artman Gergely Orosz Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Beyond the Feature Factory: Why AI Makes “Taste” the Ultimate Competitive Advantage In a world where AI can generate code in seconds, the biggest risk to software isn’t moving too slowly—it’s moving too fast in the wrong direction. 📉 In a recent conversation between Tuomas Artman (Co-founder of Linear) and Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer), the duo explored how the “shipping frenzy” triggered by AI agents might actually be degrading the quality of modern software. They dive deep into how Linear maintains its legendary quality bar and why the future of engineering belongs to those who think like product owners. ...

Presenters Malte Ubl Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 The Rise of the AI Engineer: Building the Future of Software 🚀 We are currently witnessing one of the most significant shifts in the history of technology. As Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, recently shared at the AI Engineer Conference in Europe, we aren’t just witnessing a trend—we are participating in the legitimate successor to web development. As software engineering faces unprecedented disruption, we are moving into an era where agents are both the builders and the users of our infrastructure. Here is how we navigate this new frontier. ...

Presenters Sunil Pai Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond Tool Calls: Unleashing the Power of Code Generation with AI 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the frustration of AI struggling with complex tasks, especially when dealing with a multitude of services and tools? Sunil Pai, from Cloudflare and creator of PartyKit, dives deep into a revolutionary approach that’s changing the game: code generation. Forget the clunky JSON back-and-forth; Sunil introduces us to a world where AI writes code to get things done, unlocking unprecedented efficiency and flexibility. ...