Observability

Presenters Yash Sharma Anandhkumar TV Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Scaling Storage Like a Pro: How DigitalOcean Tamed Complexity with Argo CD 🚀 Managing a cloud infrastructure is no small feat. Imagine being DigitalOcean, a provider juggling over 24,000 block storage volumes and an even larger universe of object storage instances – we’re talking three times the block storage volume! 🤯 Keeping all these storage solutions running smoothly across the globe is a monumental task. That’s why DigitalOcean embarked on a mission to revolutionize their Continuous Deployment (CD) strategy, and their weapon of choice? The powerful, graduated CNCF project: Argo CD. ...

Presenters Zach Hammer Colin O'Dell Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Say Goodbye to Staging Nightmares: How SeatGeek Built FE for Flawless Full-Stack Ephemeral Environments 🚀 Ever felt like you’re in a digital “video game battle” just to get your code onto staging? You’re not alone. For many engineering teams, shared staging environments, while a seemingly good idea, quickly devolve into a chaotic mess. Faulty deployments from one team can break everything for everyone else, leading to frustrating contention, unreliable test results, and a general lack of confidence in pushing even minor changes. ...

Presenters Benji Kalman Shiran Melamed Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Unleashing the AI Chef: Revolutionizing Vulnerability Remediation in DevOps 🤖💡 The tech world is buzzing with AI, and its market is set to explode from $5 billion to a staggering $50 billion in just a few years! 🚀 Companies are pouring more money into AI, and IT leaders are all-in on implementing it. But for us in DevOps, this surge brings a massive question: How do we weave this cutting-edge AI into our stable, high-SLA environments without breaking a sweat? ...

Presenters Alexandre Gaudreault Zach Aller Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Level Up Your Deployments: Unlocking Advanced Canary Strategies with Argo Rollouts Step Plugins 🚀 Ever felt like your canary deployments could be smarter? Like they needed a bit more… oomph to handle complex scenarios? Well, buckle up, fellow tech enthusiasts, because Intuit, the financial powerhouse behind QuickBooks and Mailchimp, has just dropped a game-changer in the cloud-native world: Canary Step Plugins for Argo Rollouts! 🤯 ...

Presenters Eli Encarnacion Mike Spiegel Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Taming Complexity: How SpotOn Revolutionized Engineering with Backstage 🚀 In the fast-paced world of tech, growth is often a double-edged sword. For SpotOn, a company powering mobile payments and management systems, rapid expansion through acquisitions brought incredible momentum but also a tangled web of systems and processes. Imagine inheriting not one, but three distinct startups, each with its own unique tech stack and deployment methods, all crammed into one organization! That was SpotOn’s reality. With a staggering 1,200 repositories and a constant barrage of “firefighting” from the operations team, clarity and focus felt like distant dreams. ...