Observability

Presenters Alexandre Gaudreault Zach Aller Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Level Up Your Deployments: Unlocking Advanced Canary Strategies with Argo Rollouts Step Plugins 🚀 Ever felt like your canary deployments could be smarter? Like they needed a bit more… oomph to handle complex scenarios? Well, buckle up, fellow tech enthusiasts, because Intuit, the financial powerhouse behind QuickBooks and Mailchimp, has just dropped a game-changer in the cloud-native world: Canary Step Plugins for Argo Rollouts! 🤯 ...

Presenters Eli Encarnacion Mike Spiegel Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Taming Complexity: How SpotOn Revolutionized Engineering with Backstage 🚀 In the fast-paced world of tech, growth is often a double-edged sword. For SpotOn, a company powering mobile payments and management systems, rapid expansion through acquisitions brought incredible momentum but also a tangled web of systems and processes. Imagine inheriting not one, but three distinct startups, each with its own unique tech stack and deployment methods, all crammed into one organization! That was SpotOn’s reality. With a staggering 1,200 repositories and a constant barrage of “firefighting” from the operations team, clarity and focus felt like distant dreams. ...

Presenters Fabrizio Sgura Gerardo Lopez Falcon Graziano Casto Cheryl Fillekes Abhinav Dubey Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Unlocking Developer Superpowers: The Rise of Internal Developer Portals 🚀 Ever felt like navigating the labyrinth of modern software development is like trying to find a needle in a haystack? You’re not alone! The conference session we’re diving into today sheds a brilliant light on a transformative solution: Internal Developer Portals (IDPs). These aren’t just fancy dashboards; they’re the key to supercharging developer experience and boosting operational efficiency across the board. 🌐 ...

Presenters Flynn Bailey Hayes Source WasmCon NA 2025 Unlocking the Power of WebAssembly with Linkerd: A Secure, Observable Future 🚀 Ever felt like your microservices were a bit too… exposed? You’re not alone! The modern cloud-native landscape, with its intricate web of services, demands robust security, unwavering reliability, and crystal-clear observability. And when you throw cutting-edge technologies like WebAssembly (Wasm) into the mix, things can get even more interesting. That’s exactly what we explored in a recent deep dive, focusing on the powerful synergy between Linkerd, the service mesh that just works, and WebAssembly (Wasm), specifically orchestrated by WasmCloud on Kubernetes. Forget writing complex networking code or wrestling with security configurations – this is about letting your applications do what they do best, while a battle-hardened service mesh handles the heavy lifting. ...

Presenters Elizabeth Gilbert Source WasmCon NA 2025 Whamm: Unleashing the Power of Performant, Sandboxed Instrumentation ✨🚀 Ever felt the pain of fragmented tooling when trying to understand your code’s inner workings? You’re not alone! The world of instrumentation, crucial for everything from debugging to security, has historically been a tangled mess of language-specific solutions. But what if you could write a tool once and deploy it across a multitude of environments with comparable performance? Welcome to the revolutionary world of Whamm, an active research framework from Carnegie Mellon University that’s making this a reality! 🌐 ...