System Architecture and Design

Presenters Milind Source GrafanaCon 2026 Supercharge Your Grafana Dashboards: Say Goodbye to Loading Lag with ASAPQuery! 🚀 Are you tired of staring at loading spinners while your Grafana dashboards struggle to keep up? Milind, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon and leader of ProjectASAP, has a game-changing solution that promises orders of magnitude faster Grafana dashboards and lower query costs. Get ready to meet ASAPQuery! ✨ The Pain of Slow Dashboards 😫 We’ve all been there. You’ve painstakingly set up your Prometheus-Grafana stack to monitor your deployments. But every time you adjust a time range or refresh your dashboard, you’re met with that frustrating loading lag. And as you expand your query window, that lag only gets worse. What if this entire experience could be instant? ...

Presenters Chris Nick Source GrafanaCon 2026 TamaGROTchi: Bringing Observability to Life (and Your Desk!) 👾✨ Remember those addictive digital pets from your childhood, the Tamagotchis? You know, the ones that had a mysterious knack for kicking the digital bucket, leaving you scratching your head wondering why? Well, prepare for a blast from the past with a modern, observability-infused twist! Chris and Nick from Grafana are here to introduce you to TamaGROTchi, the 2026 version that’s not just cute, but a powerful demonstration of how we can bring observability to the smallest of devices. ...

Presenters Chris Field Kevin Field Source GrafanaCon 2026 Fusion, ML, and Grafana: The Unexpected Power Trio Driving Scientific Discovery 🚀💡 Ever thought you’d see fusion energy, machine learning, and data visualization tools like Grafana talked about in the same breath? Well, prepare to have your mind blown! Chris Field and Kevin Field from Theia Scientific are here to show us how these seemingly disparate technologies are converging to accelerate scientific breakthroughs, particularly in the quest for fusion power. Their innovative solution, the Theiascope, is weaving these threads together, creating a powerful new way to understand and advance complex research. ...

Presenters Baris Gultekin Source Product School Podcast Unlocking Your Data’s Potential: How AI is Revolutionizing Enterprise Insights 🚀 Ever felt lost in a sea of data, desperately trying to find that one crucial insight? You’re not alone. For too long, accessing and understanding enterprise data has been a bottleneck, requiring a data scientist’s intervention and days of waiting. But what if you could simply talk to your data and get answers in seconds? That’s the revolution AI is bringing, and at the forefront of this transformation is Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud. ...

Presenters Anders Hejlsberg Source The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast 🚀 The Long Game: Lessons from the Architect of Modern Programming If you have ever written a line of C# or TypeScript, you have walked in the footsteps of Anders Hejlsberg. From the legendary Turbo Pascal to the enterprise powerhouse of C# and the web-dominating TypeScript, Anders has shaped how millions of developers build software. In a recent deep dive, we explored the philosophy of language design, the shift toward AI, and why the best tools are built on a long-term vision. ...