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Presenters Daniel Bryant Renato Losio Sini Nirmala Thomas Betts Shane Hasty Source InfoQ podcast 🚀 Navigating the AI Paradox: The 2025–2026 Software Architecture Roadmap We are currently standing at a fascinating, albeit slightly chaotic, crossroads in technology. The dust from the initial AI explosion is settling, and as we look toward 2025 and 2026, the landscape is shifting from hype-driven development to a gritty realization of what it takes to build resilient, scalable systems in an AI-native world. ...

Presenters Marco Antonio Sanz Molina Prados Source apidays Paris 2025 API-First: Designing for Success from Day One 🚀 In the fast-paced world of tech, building robust and scalable APIs is paramount. But how do we ensure our APIs are not just functional, but truly excellent? Marco Antonio S., an API and AI evangelist at APIs Foundation, recently shed light on a transformative approach: API-First. Forget the old ways; this is about designing for success from the very beginning. ...

Presenters Gregorz Michalec Ivona Skorjanc Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Prometheus Observability with Automated PR Checks 🚀💡 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s dive into a super practical solution for ensuring best practices are followed when users are modifying your Prometheus configurations. This isn’t a polished presentation – it’s a lightning talk born from a lunch-time brainstorm, but the core ideas are incredibly valuable. 🤖 The Problem: Manual Validation is a Bottleneck 🧱 Traditionally, when users (like those on your platform observability team) create new script targets or alerting rules in Prometheus repositories, the validation process was entirely manual. 🧑‍💻 This meant a real operator had to manually review every pull request, checking for potential issues. The challenge? This was: ...

Presenters Israel Blancas Source PromCon EU 2025 🚨 Unmasking Telemetry Trouble: Preventing Data Loss & Bottlenecks in OpenTelemetry 🚀 Let’s be honest – OpenTelemetry is amazing. The promise of automatic instrumentation, a unified observability solution – it’s almost too good to be true. But as Coral Logix’s Israel brilliantly demonstrated, chasing that “magical” automatic approach without a solid strategy can lead to a whole heap of problems. This presentation wasn’t about how to use OpenTelemetry, it was about how not to – specifically, how to avoid the common pitfalls that can turn your observability investment into a frustrating data graveyard. 💀 ...

Presenters Marcus Ross Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 ⚓ Smooth Sailing Through Regulatory Storms: How GitOps Powers the Hamburg Port Authority In the world of global logistics, the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) is a titan. Managing Germany’s largest seaport and Europe’s premier rail port isn’t just about moving containers; it is about securing the digital backbone of critical infrastructure. When Marcus Ross, Lead for the Cloud Center of Excellence at the HPA, took the stage recently, he revealed a startling reality: his team isn’t just fighting hackers—they are navigating a 1,000-page mountain of security regulations. Here is how they use GitOps as their “hidden champion” to stay compliant, secure, and agile. 🌊🚢 ...