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Presenters Igor de Sousa Source PromCon EU 2025 Beyond Monitoring: The Urgent Need for True Observability 🚀 Let’s be honest, the tech world is obsessed with monitoring. We’re drowning in alerts, dashboards, and metrics – but are we really understanding what’s happening beneath the surface? This presentation challenged that very notion, arguing that true observability goes far beyond simply tracking data. Let’s dive into the key takeaways and explore a crucial shift in how we approach system health. ...

Presenters Hervé Nicol Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Mastering Prometheus Rules: A Deep Dive into Rule Management 💡 Let’s be honest, Prometheus rules are essential for any serious monitoring operation. But let’s also be real – managing them can feel like navigating a complex maze. How do you keep them consistent? How do you ensure they’re actually working as intended? At James Swam, we’ve been wrestling with these questions, and we’ve found some surprisingly effective strategies. Let’s break down our approach and explore some best practices. ...

Presenters Björn “Beorn” Rabenstein Source PromCon EU 2025 Rate Smoothing & Anchoring: A Deep Dive into Prometheus Rate Function Evolution 🚀 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s talk about something that’s been buzzing in the monitoring world: the Prometheus rate function. It’s a fundamental piece of the puzzle for calculating rates from time series data, but it’s also a surprisingly complex and often misunderstood component. Today, we’re going to break down the recent changes and explore the new approaches of “anchored” and “smooth” rates – and why they matter for your observability stack. ...

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. 🌊🚢 ...

Presenters Luke Philips Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 🌐 Bridging the Gap: How CD Events are Revolutionizing GitOps and Application Delivery In the fast-paced world of cloud-native development, we’ve moved far beyond the days of a simple script pushing code to a server. Today, the journey from a Git commit to a production deployment is more like navigating a high-speed, multi-lane highway system than a quiet country road. 🏎️ At a recent industry presentation, Luke Phillips, Principal Software Engineer, took the stage to address a growing pain point in our industry: the fragmentation of our delivery pipelines. His solution? A standardized, vendor-neutral language called CD Events. ...