System Architecture and Design

Presenters Bartek Protka Source PromCon EU 2025 🤖 The Trolley Problem of Metrics: Navigating Collection Resiliency 🚀 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s talk about a surprisingly relevant thought experiment that’s impacting how we manage our data pipelines – the Trolley Problem. It might sound a bit heavy, but it perfectly illustrates a critical challenge in collection resiliency and how we’re tackling it. 🤯 The Trolley Problem in Data Collection The classic Trolley Problem asks: if you can divert a runaway trolley to save five people, but doing so will kill one, what do you do? In the world of data collection, we’re facing a similar dilemma. Imagine your data collection system – think Prometheus, OpenTelemetry collectors, or any other metric pipeline – is nearing its memory limit. You’re staring down a massive influx of data, potentially high-cardinality data (meaning lots of unique values), and you know that processing it could lead to a crash. ...

Presenters Richard “RichiH” Hartmann Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Prometheus: Still Reigning Supreme – A Look at Adoption & Community 💪 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Let’s dive into a fascinating update on the world of observability, specifically focusing on the powerhouse that is Prometheus. This presentation offered a behind-the-scenes look at adoption trends and a surprisingly calm perspective on the future of this critical tool. Let’s break it down! 📊 The Numbers Don’t Lie: Prometheus Adoption is Strong 💪 The speaker kicked things off with a tradition – a yearly deep dive into Prometheus adoption statistics. Now, these numbers are extremely sensitive, a closely guarded secret for obvious reasons. However, they graciously revealed one exception: Prometheus itself. ...

Presenters Marcus Ross Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 ⚓ Smooth Sailing Through Regulatory Storms: How GitOps Powers the Hamburg Port Authority In the world of global logistics, the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) is a titan. Managing Germany’s largest seaport and Europe’s premier rail port isn’t just about moving containers; it is about securing the digital backbone of critical infrastructure. When Marcus Ross, Lead for the Cloud Center of Excellence at the HPA, took the stage recently, he revealed a startling reality: his team isn’t just fighting hackers—they are navigating a 1,000-page mountain of security regulations. Here is how they use GitOps as their “hidden champion” to stay compliant, secure, and agile. 🌊🚢 ...

Presenters Cansu Kavili Örnek Koray Oksay Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 From YAML Nightmares to Platform Nirvana: Introducing KRO 🚀 If you have spent any time in the trenches of platform engineering lately, you know the struggle is real. We are all searching for that “Goldilocks” zone: a platform that is powerful enough for engineers but simple enough that developers do not need a PhD in Kubernetes just to deploy a microservice. ...

Presenters Luke Philips Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 🌐 Bridging the Gap: How CD Events are Revolutionizing GitOps and Application Delivery In the fast-paced world of cloud-native development, we’ve moved far beyond the days of a simple script pushing code to a server. Today, the journey from a Git commit to a production deployment is more like navigating a high-speed, multi-lane highway system than a quiet country road. 🏎️ At a recent industry presentation, Luke Phillips, Principal Software Engineer, took the stage to address a growing pain point in our industry: the fragmentation of our delivery pipelines. His solution? A standardized, vendor-neutral language called CD Events. ...