Observable Lightning Talks June 2025

Observable Lightning Talks is back with new speakers for the June 2025 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 12th of June 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  Observable lightning talk of June 2025 is planned on the 12th of June between 12PM - 1:30PM EST (6pm-7:30PM CEST)

Here is the Agenda for the first edition:

# Agenda

The 3 presentations of this edition are :

# Catch Hackers with Koney: Automated Honeytokens for Cloud-Native Apps

Mario Kahlhofer, Senior Research Scientist at Dynatrace

Techniques to deceive hackers are not new. Placing honeytokens, such as a fake "passwords.txt" file in your container, wastes hackers' time and provides strong indicators of compromise when accessed. But do you set traps in your workloads? Probably not. Manually injecting a fleet of decoys into your applications and detecting access attempts to them isn't straightforward.
Kubernetes offers a great foundation into which we can easily integrate traps to detect hackers. In this talk, we'll introduce Koney, an operator that allows you to define so-called deception policies for clusters. Koney automates the setup, rotation, and teardown of honeytokens and fake API endpoints, and uses eBPF to detect, log, and forward alerts when traps have been accessed.
We will briefly cover the concept of cyber deception for enhancing cybersecurity, after which we will give a live demonstration of how Koney can place honeytokens in application containers.

# Enhancing Database Observability with OpenTelemetry

Marylia Gutierrez, Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs

Databases are a crucial part of applications and we need to understand their usage and performance. This talk dives into how you can instrument your application using the Semantic Conventions recently marked as stable with OpenTelemetry SDKs to improve observability and collect telemetry data from your databases. Whether you're an SRE, developer, or database administrator, this talk will equip you with the tools and knowledge to bring clarity and efficiency to your database systems.

# Smart API sandboxes with Microcks: why? what? how?

Laurent Broudoux, Co-founder of Microcks

Sandboxes allow developers, testers or partners to play around with your product, but they usually fail the promise. "Dumb, out of sync, costly to run and maintain" are common feedbacks. It could have been so much better! It is with Microcks, a sandbox CNCF project that allows you to produce smart, lightweight, on-demand sandboxes that integrate both your developers' laptops and your Kubernetes cluster and observability stack. Join us to learn how to build - not just sandboxes but - complete sandcastles in a breeze!