Observable Lightning Talks APAC February 2025

Observable Lightning Talks is back with new speakers for the first APAC edition. Come and join us to hear tips and tricks from Industry Experts.

Observable lighting talks open the stage to three speakers sharing their experiences, recommendations, best practices, and more.

And if you have any questions for our speakers, you can ask them during the live panel discussion.

Come and join us on the 13th of February for the new edition of Observable Lighting Talks.

# Where?

The event will be broadcast live on Linkedin, Twitch, Facebook, and of course Youtube.

Observability and SRE practices rely on many frameworks available on the market. However, since technology evolves at a very fast pace, it can be difficult to keep track of the latest solutions and technologies and implement all the best practices.

To help you improve your practices and understand the best of breed of the latest technology, IsitObservable is launching a new Show: Observable Lightning Talks.

The concept is simple: Thought leaders from the observability industry will help us along in our technology journey.

Each Observable Lighting Talk will host three speakers covering three different topics that we all love:

The APAC Observable lightning talk is planned on the 13th of February between 5PM - 6:30PM AEDT ( 7am-8:30PM CEST)

Here is the Agenda for the first edition :

# Agenda

The 3 presentations of this edition are :

# From OTEL to Custom Solutions: an Observability Story

This presentation explores Daniele’s four-year journey with Node.js and OpenTelemetry, from initial adoption to custom implementation. It covers the challenges encountered with auto-instrumentation, performance issues, and the limitations of existing solutions. The talk discusses the experiments with custom backends, insights from other logging architectures, and the paradigm shift in thinking about traces and events. Attendees will gain insights into practical approaches to observability in Node.js environments and the evolution of tracing methodologies.

# Observability 2.0 aka the past/present/future of monitoring & observability

Is it time to version observability? In this talk, I'll share the evolution of how we've tried to debug systems over the years and why modern systems design approaches require a new approach to storing and querying data with single sources of truth and ad-hoc querying capabilities.

# Observability in a SaaS First World

Organisations around the world are adopting SaaS — not just for simple operations, but for complex products and services. This is sometimes driven by software vendors migrating to cloud and discontinuing support for self-hosted solutions. This leads to ecosystems of SaaS products integrated together in a way which collectively supports a business. It forces the adoption of a completely different way of building and operating technology. One of the significant hurdles making such a technology ecosystem observable when:
• You cannot install APM or other monitoring agents on a SaaS service
• You cannot (necessarily) instrument the code
• You cannot control the format of logs, metrics, headers
• You cannot enforce context propagation to support distributed tracing
...so how do you bring all of these SaaS services together into a single cohesive view of what is happening within your extremely complex and constantly changing architecture?