Observable Lightning Talks September 2024

Observable Lightning Talks is back with new speakers for the edition of September 2024. 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 10th of September 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 is planned on the 10th of September 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 :

# Let the bad guys be your pentesters - Democratizing threat-informed defense in cloud-native

Threat intelligence plays a vital role in effectively and sustainably defending cloud deployments. To appropriately prioritize the timely remediation from the large list of vulnerabilities, we require accurate intelligence on which chains of attack paths are being exploited. Much cyber threat intelligence (CTI) exists, but the cloud native community lacks a usable ontology to share CTI. We want for platform teams to have a means to shift-left and test the effectiveness of defending against a perceived threat, thus continuously improving their individual attack surface and quantifying the relevance of individual vulnerabilities.
The Kubernetes Storm Centre is a newly established open source initiative that aims to provide a framework for independent quantification of cloud-native attack paths, such that assumed threats may be pro-actively exploited and resulting threat intelligence shared freely globally

# Elevate Observability with Profiling

Profiling offers powerful insights, but many developers and engineers find them intimidating. This session aims to demystify profiling.

In this talk, Frederic will cover:

By the end of this talk, you will have the skills to use profiling data, ensuring your applications run efficiently.

# Fine-tuning Auto-instrumentation

Automatic instrumentation is a great way to get started in any observability journey. For many, the telemetry gleaned from these libraries is enough to cover the majority of important use cases. But while everything may be covered in these libraries, there is also a lot included that may not be needed or desired. At that point it’s important to understand how to fine-tune the instrumentation based on configuration options available.