talks.yaml

- id: 2026-03-26-kubecon-eu-taming-wasteful-telemetry
  date: '2026-03-26'
  title: "Day-2 Reality Check: Taming Wasteful Telemetry"
  description: >
    Your observability pipeline is running and everything seems fine—until you notice the bill. High-cardinality metrics, duplicate attributes, and over-eager auto-instrumentation silently inflate costs. A developer adding user IDs as labels turned a 2k USD metric into 20k USD. .NET auto-instrumentation attaches all IPs and MACs to host attributes—data never queried. The Kubernetes processor duplicates information already captured. This talk examines sources of telemetry waste: unbounded cardinality, redundant processor data, and auto-instrumentation defaults prioritizing completeness over practicality. We'll discuss pipeline fixes using the OpenTelemetry Collector to drop attributes and transform telemetry, plus Instrumentation Score for quality assessment. We'll explore proactive approaches reducing waste at the source through opinionated auto-instrumentation. Attendees will learn to identify waste, assess cardinality, apply solutions, and reduce costs without sacrificing visibility.
  location: "Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱"
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026'
  event_link: https://sched.co/2CW6M
  co_speakers:
    - Elena Kovalenko, Delivery Hero

- id: 2026-03-24-kubecon-eu-otel-project-update
  date: '2026-03-24'
  title: "OpenTelemetry Project Update and 'Ask the Experts'"
  description: >
    Join us for the official project update OpenTelemetry session at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon. OpenTelemetry contributors have been working hard to evolve the project to be stable by default and simplify its usage. Governance Committee members will discuss these and other exciting improvements in the project since the last update in Atlanta. This session will also be your opportunity to engage with contributors and maintainers from across the project and get your questions answered!
  location: "Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱"
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026'
  event_link: https://sched.co/2EF6i
  co_speakers:
    - Pablo Baeyens, Datadog
    - Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs
    - Severin Neumann, Causely

- id: 2026-03-23-observability-day-otel-gateways
  date: '2026-03-23'
  title: "OpenTelemetry Gateways: Enforce, Transform, Route"
  description: >
    Teaching every development team about telemetry best practices doesn't scale. When bad data flows through pipelines (PII leakage, misconfigured attributes, cost-inflating noise) you need a centralized control point. OpenTelemetry collector gateways provide that enforcement layer between applications and backends. This talk presents proven gateway architectures from production environments managing cloud and on-premises telemetry. We'll demonstrate validation rules enforcing semantic conventions, transformation pipelines that enrich or redact data, and routing configurations enabling backend flexibility without developer refactoring. You'll see real configurations: blocking PII, enforcing mandatory attributes, and filtering high-cardinality data before it leaves your premises. We'll cover performance at scale, security boundaries for multi-tenant environments, and managing configuration drift. Attendees leave with blueprints and configurations ready for deployment.
  location: "Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱"
  event_name: 'Observability Day Europe 2026'
  event_link: https://sched.co/2DY7t
  co_speakers:
    - Natalie Ujuk, IG Group

- id: 2026-03-23-observability-day-welcome
  date: '2026-03-23'
  title: "Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks"
  location: "Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱"
  slides: /2026/2026-03-23-observability-day-welcome/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Observability Day Europe 2026'
  event_link: https://sched.co/2DYMy

- id: 2025-11-11-kubecon-na-instrumentation-score
  date: '2025-11-11'
  title: 'Instrumentation Score: The Difference Between Telemetry and Good Telemetry'
  description: >
    The session introduces an open standard for assessing OpenTelemetry data quality, consistency, and completeness. Speakers explain how the Instrumentation Score helps practitioners "collect excellent telemetry" and identifies gaps in observability practices, moving beyond mere data collection toward actionable insights.
  location: "Atlanta, GA, 🇺🇸"
  slides: /2025/2025-11-11-kubecon-na-instrumentation-score/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025'
  event_link: https://sched.co/27FWx
  co_speakers:
    - Michele Mancioppi, Dash0

- id: 2025-11-10-observability-day-bad-telemetry
  date: '2025-11-10'
  title: "There's a Lot of Bad Telemetry Out There"
  description: >
    The presentation addresses problems with poor-quality telemetry data. As described, "Much telemetry is bad: noisy, costly, and hides real signals." The speakers examine issues like auto-instrumentation noise and verbose traces, then demonstrate solutions using OpenTelemetry Collector configurations to filter and improve data quality at the pipeline level.
  location: "Atlanta, GA, 🇺🇸"
  slides: /2025/2025-11-10-observability-day-bad-telemetry/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Observability Day NA 2025'
  event_link: https://sched.co/28D5B
  co_speakers:
    - Dan Gomez Blanco, New Relic

- id: 2025-11-10-observability-day-panel
  date: '2025-11-10'
  title: 'Panel: Surviving and Thriving With OpenTelemetry: A Day 2 Operations'
  description: >
    The panel addresses operational challenges with OpenTelemetry Collector at scale, including "managing large fleets, ensuring config stability, controlling costs, and maintaining data quality." Speakers share strategies from real-world implementations covering fleet management, safe rollouts, problematic data handling, and the path toward stable Collector v1 releases.
  location: "Atlanta, GA, 🇺🇸"
  slides: /2025/2025-11-10-observability-day-panel/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Observability Day NA 2025'
  event_link: https://sched.co/28D30
  co_speakers:
    - Myrle Krantz, Grafana Labs
    - Joseph Knight, Capital One
    - Vijay Samuel, eBay
    - Panos Tsilopoulos, Nike

- id: 2025-10-14-datadog-berlin
  date: '2025-10-14'
  title: "What's Bad Telemetry Anyway?"
  description: >
    Discusses how excessive telemetry often becomes "expensive, noisy, and surprisingly unhelpful" and explores strategies for meaningful observability.
  location: "Berlin, 🇩🇪"
  slides: /2025/2025-10-14-datadog-berlin/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Datadog User Group Berlin'
  event_link: https://www.meetup.com/datadog-berlin/events/310647845/

- id: 2025-07-02-cloudland
  date: '2025-07-02'
  title: 'Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: A Gateway to Modern Observability'
  description: ""
  location: "Soltau, 🇩🇪"
  slides: /2025/2025-07-02-cloudland/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'CloudLand 2025'
  event_link: https://meine.doag.org/events/cloudland/2025/agenda/#agendaId.5807

- id: 2025-05-06-gophercon
  date: '2025-05-06'
  title: 'Instrumentação com OpenTelemetry: Técnicas e Boas Práticas'
  description: ""
  location: "Florianópolis, SC, 🇧🇷 (Virtual)"
  slides: /2025/2025-05-06-gophercon/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'GopherCon LATAM 2025'

- id: 2025-04-03-kubecon-eu-otel-sucks
  date: '2025-04-03'
  title: OTel Sucks (But Also Rocks!)
  description: >
    OpenTelemetry (OTel) has become a cornerstone of observability, but the journey hasn't been without challenges. Inspired by the famous "Linux Sucks" format, this talk explores OTel's pain points and highlights its successes.

    We'll cover:
    * SDK Configuration: Once complex for simple scenarios, now simplified by the Config SIG.
    * Collector Challenges: Tail-sampling woes and Prometheus performance issues, balanced by OTel's ability to handle multiple signals in one binary with great performance using OTLP.
    * Semantic Conventions: Painful changes, like in HTTP conventions, but with long-term benefits through unified standards.

    Featuring real-world user insights, this session delivers a brutally honest yet optimistic take on OTel's evolution. Perfect for anyone navigating OpenTelemetry's complexities or celebrating its strengths.
  location: "London, 🇬🇧"
  recording: https://youtu.be/QzStkLbA7Qk
  slides: /2025/2025-04-03-kubecon-eu-otel-sucks/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025'
  event_link: https://sched.co/1txHm

- id: 2025-01-23-datadog-user-group
  date: '2025-01-23'
  title: Introduction to OpenTelemetry
  description: ""
  location: "Berlin, 🇩🇪"
  slides: /2025/2025-01-23-datadog-user-group/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Datadog User Group Berlin'

- id: 2024-11-04-kubecon-na
  date: '2024-11-04'
  title: OpenTelemetry Project Update
  description: >
    This is the official OpenTelemetry session at Kubecon. OpenTelemetry started with distributed traces and metrics, but the
    project's vision has always been to provide whatever signals are needed from infrastructure, services, and more. This
    session will focus on what's coming next, including new signals and sources. Join to learn about OpenTelemetry's new
    logging functionality, including its two logging paths, the benefits of each, and real-world production examples. We'll
    show the power of the next wave of OpenTelemetry enhancements, including profiling and the insights that this unlocks in
    combination with distributed traces, and how we're extending your observability to client applications. We'll wrap up with
    a Q&A of 10+ project maintainers, who can speak to these topics and more.
  location: "Salt Lake City, UT, 🇺🇸"
  recording: https://youtu.be/rX7gKt4QlTk
  slides: /2024/2024-11-04-kubecon-na/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024'
  event_link: https://sched.co/1hovy
  co_speakers:
    - Morgan Mclean, Splunk
    - Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
    - Ted Young, ServiceNow
    - Alolita Sharma, Apple

- id: 2024-10-10-kcd-austria
  date: '2024-10-10'
  title: Kubernetes Community Day Austria
  description: >
    As cloud native technologies become increasingly prevalent, the need for robustness, scalability, and efficiency in these
    systems is more critical than ever. Observability serves as a cornerstone in meeting these demands by offering profound
    insights into the behavior of applications and their underlying infrastructure. This keynote will delve into the essential
    elements of observability within cloud native environments, emphasizing the comprehensive visibility it affords into
    complex and dynamic systems. We will also explore the cultural shifts encouraged by observability, highlighting how it
    fosters a proactive approach to system management and optimization. Join us to uncover how deep observability can transform
    your cloud native strategy, ensuring your infrastructure not only meets current demands but is also primed for future
    challenges.
  location: "Vienna, 🇦🇹"
  slides: /2024/2024-10-10-kcd-austria/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Kubernetes Community Day'
  event_link: https://kcdaustria2024.sessionize.com/session/740116

- id: 2024-you-choose
  date: '2024-10-08'
  title: You Choose - Data Pipelines
  description: ''
  location: "Online, 🌍"
  recording: https://youtu.be/fhIuylaJ1xA

- id: 2024-otel-community-day
  date: '2024-06-25'
  title: OpenTelemetry Governance Panel
  description: >
    PANEL: OpenTelemetry Governance Panel - Reese Lee, New Relic; Juraci Paixao Krohling, Grafana Labs; Alolita Sharma, Apple;
    Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
  location: "Seattle, WA, 🇺🇸"
  recording: https://youtu.be/Mfh_0Qn_1zo

- id: 2024-06-06-cncf-duesseldorf
  date: '2024-06-06'
  title: Demystifying Sampling
  description: >
    Juraci Kröhling - Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs Labs and OpenTelemetry Governing Board Member and CNCF Ambassador, will
    be demystifying sampling and looking at concepts and practices for sampling logs, metrics and traces.
  location: "Düsseldorf, 🇩🇪"
  slides: /2024/2024-06-06-cncf-duesseldorf/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'CNCF Düsseldorf'

- id: 2024-05-24-cncf-santa-catarina
  date: '2024-05-24'
  title: "Menu de Degustação para OTel Collector"
  description: >
    Hoje vamos fazer algo diferente: vou transmitir ao vivo em conjunto com o grupo da CNCF de Santa Catarina. Vou oferecer um
    menu de degustação para OTel Collector, mostrando como fazer coisas bem específicas, do começo ao fim.
  location: "Online, 🇧🇷"
  recording: https://youtu.be/o7CYHjZuykM
  slides: /2024/2024-05-24-cncf-santa-catarina/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'CNCF Santa Catarina'

- id: 2024-03-19-observability-day
  date: '2024-03-19'
  title: "Real-World Sampling – Lessons Learned After Reducing ~80% of Our O11y Costs"
  description: >
    Application observability tools play a crucial role in the optimization of application performance. However, it can be costly
    when a good instrumentation strategy isn't in place. Without carefully selecting which data to keep, it can become a
    financial problem. With this in mind, Pismo considered some types of sampling, from vendor-specific solutions to open-source
    ones, and ended up landing at OpenTelemetry's Tail Sampling processor due to the flexibility of the policies that can be
    used, as well as its performance, reliability, and vendor neutrality. In this presentation, Juraci will talk about strategies
    to achieve a highly available tail-sampling setup, while Alexandre will show what his team did at Pismo to reduce their
    application observability costs by about 80% while keeping enough data to observe their applications adequately. At the end
    of this session, you'll learn why sampling is needed, what tail-sampling is, and the trade-offs to consider when planning
    its usage.
  location: "Paris, 🇫🇷"
  recording: https://youtu.be/1mHlsWinfTE
  slides: /2024/2024-03-19-observability-day/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Observability Day'

- id: 2024-03-18-rejekts
  date: '2024-03-18'
  title: Building Resilient Observability Pipelines in Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry Collector
  description: >
    Deploying OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes is straightforward with Helm charts and the Operator. However, achieving a
    robust and production-quality observability pipeline requires thoughtful configuration and experimentation.
  location: "Paris, 🇫🇷"
  recording: https://youtu.be/S1K26-2wG8w
  slides: /2024/2024-03-18-rejekts/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Cloud_Native Rejekts'

- id: 2024-02-23-kcd-sp
  date: '2024-02-23'
  title: "Estado da Arte na Observabilidade 🇧🇷"
  description: >
    Nessa apresentação neutra, Juraci Paixão Kröhling examinará as melhores ferramentas de código livre na vanguarda da
    obsevabilidade. Serão abordados os pontos fortes e fracos de ferramentas nas áreas de instrumentação, coleta, e
    armazenamento de dados de telemetria, como logs, rastros, e métricas. Este exame profundo sobre o estado atual da
    obsevabilidade oferecerá uma visão equilibrada de desafios e soluções, moldando o futuro da observabilidade com código livre.
  location: "Online, 🌍"
  slides: /2024/2024-02-23-kcd-sp/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Kubernetes Community Days - São Paulo'

- id: 2023-humans-of-otel
  date: '2023-12-20'
  title: The Humans of OTel - KubeCon NA 2023
  description: >
    We caught up with some of the contributors, maintainers, and practitioners of OpenTelemetry at the OpenTelemetry Observatory
    for KubeCon NA in Chicago. They share their thoughts on OTel, Observability, and more!
  location: "Online, 🌍"
  recording: https://youtu.be/coPrhP_7lVU

- id: 2023-grafana-office-hours
  date: '2023-12-08'
  title: 'Getting started with OpenTelemetry, with Juraci Paixão Kröhling (Grafana Office Hours #23)'
  description: >
    Principal Engineer Juraci Paixão Kröhling talks to us about getting started with OpenTelemetry: what it is, why everyone's
    talking about it, and how to instrument your systems and improve their reliability and observability. Juraci is a contributor
    to open source projects like Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.
  location: "Online, 🌍"
  recording: https://youtu.be/Xhh9V7uRP88

- id: 2023-grafana-and-friends
  date: '2023-12-06'
  title: 'Encore: Best practices in Observability and OpenTelemetry at Deutsche Bank'
  description: >
    Join us for a second meetup at Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology Centre featuring presentations from Andrey Tyulenev, SRE Lead,
    Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology Centre, and Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and a Governance
    Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project.
  location: "Berlin, 🇩🇪"
  slides: /2023/2023-12-06-grafana-and-friends/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Meetup: Grafana and Friends'
  event_link: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-and-friends-berlin/events/296932045

- id: 2023-geeking-out
  date: '2023-11-21'
  title: E11 - The One Where We Geek Out on OpenTelemetry with Juraci Paixão Kröhling of Grafana Labs
  description: >
    Juraci Paixão Kröhling of Grafana Labs geeks out with Adriana Villela on all things OpenTelemetry! As an early contributor to
    OpenTelemetry haling from the pre-OTel days of OpenTracing, Juraci reflects on how much the project has changed and evolved.
    He also talks about his role on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) and how the GC serves the OTel community at
    large, and about his continued involvement in the OpenTelemetry Collector. Juraci closes by sharing his passion for
    contributing to diversity in tech through Outreachy, highlighting his commitment to enriching the technology community.
  location: "Online, 🌍"
  recording: https://youtu.be/u5oXMGQd1Oc

- id: 2023-11-08-kubecon-na
  date: '2023-11-08'
  title: "🚨 Contribfest: OpenTelemetry Contribfest"
  description: >
    Join the OpenTelemetry maintainers in making OpenTelemetry better for everyone. OpenTelemetry will have several opportunities
    to contribute. The OpenTelemetry Collector is vendor-agnostic implementation for receiving, processing and exporting telemetry
    data. The Collector is a large ecosystem, including individual components, a telemetry transformation language, helm charts,
    and a Kubernetes operator. Join the Collector maintainers and help fix bugs, add new features, and add new transformation
    functions. OpenTelemetry JavaScript is an OTel client written in typescript which supports traces, metrics, and logs, but an
    observability client is only as good as the telemetry it collects. Help the OTel JS maintainers update the instrumentation
    libraries and ensure they are outputting semantic convention-compliant telemetry data.
  location: "Chicago, IL, 🇺🇸"
  slides: /2023/2023-11-08-kubecon-na/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023'
  event_link: https://sched.co/1R2rQ
  co_speakers:
    - Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
    - Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb
    - Alex Boten, Lightstep
    - Anthony Mirabella, AWS

- id: 2023-09-29-linuxtips
  date: '2023-09-29'
  title: "O fantástico mundo da observabilidade"
  description: >
    Nessa sessão, Juraci Paixão Kröhling fala sobre porquê precisamos de observabilidade, qual a diferença entre observabilidade e
    monitoramento, onde entra a telemetria nessa história toda, assim como os principais tipos de telemetria, quando usá-los e
    quando NÃO usá-los.
  location: "Online, 🇧🇷"
  slides: /2023/2023-09-29-linuxtips/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Aniversário da LinuxTips'

- id: 2023-05-09-cncf-luxembourg
  date: '2023-05-09'
  title: 'Unlocking Observability: Your Gateway to OpenTelemetry'
  description: >
    Discover the power of observability with OpenTelemetry: your one-stop solution for unified, efficient, and seamless
    monitoring of applications and infrastructure. Empower your teams to gain insights, optimize performance, and enhance
    reliability with this meetup about OpenTelemetry.
  location: "Online, 🇱🇺"
  slides: /2023/2023-05-09-cncf-luxembourg/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Cloud Native Luxembourg Meetup'
  event_link: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-luxembourg-presents-unlocking-observability-your-gateway-to-opentelemetry/

- id: 2023-05-06-devopsdays-aracaju
  date: '2023-05-06'
  title: "Dissecando rastreamento distribuído"
  description: >
    Nessa apresentação, Juraci Paixão Kröhling vai mostrar todos os aspectos do rastreamento distribuído, para que você possa
    entender de uma vez por todas como funciona e como implementar nos seus projetos!
  location: "Aracaju, SE, 🇧🇷"
  slides: /2023/2023-05-06-devopsdays-aracaju/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'DevOpsDays Aracaju'
  event_link: https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-aracaju/program/juraci-paixao

- id: 2023-kubecon-eu
  date: '2023-04-18'
  title: 'Panel Discussion: The Present and Future of Open Source Observability'
  description: >
    In this panel discussion, maintainers and end-users come together to discuss the recent advances in the open source
    observability ecosystem, and talk about the challenges and opportunities for the community in the future.
  location: "Amsterdam, 🇳🇱"
  recording: https://youtu.be/B-4kYdN-6-w

- id: 2023-is-it-observable
  date: '2023-03-22'
  title: Observable Lightning Talks March 2023
  description: >
    Looking for tips from thought leaders of the observability industry?

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

    This 2sd edition of the Lighting  talks covered :
  location: "Online, 🌍"
  recording: https://youtu.be/1p_Cm2kkZu8

- id: 2023-grafana
  date: '2023-02-01'
  title: "Observabilidade com Grafana OpenSource e Rastreamento Distribuído"
  description: >
    A sessão terá uma hora de duração e tratará da jornada de Observabilidade com o Grafana Open Source, bem como, Rastreamento
    Distribuído.
  location: "Online, 🌍"

- id: 2022-12-10-devopsdays-recife
  date: '2022-12-10'
  title: "Tudo o que SREs PRECISAM saber sobre OpenTelemetry"
  description: >
    O projeto OpenTelemetry é relativamente novo mas já é o segundo projeto mais ativo da Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Isso
    reflete tanto o tamanho atual do projeto quanto sua velocidade. Nessa sessão, Juraci Paixão Kröhling vai dar uma introdução
    ao projeto, falando dos aspectos que você precisa saber pra começar com o projeto. Você vai sair dessa sessão tendo uma boa
    compreensão de todos os componentes do projeto, conseguindo determinar quais são importantes para seu dia a dia como SRE.
  location: "Recife, PE, 🇧🇷"
  slides: /2022/2022-12-10-devopsdays-recife/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'DevOpsDays Recife'
  event_link: https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-recife/program/juraci-paixao-krohling

- id: 2022-10-08-devopsdays-fortaleza
  date: '2022-10-08'
  title: "Tudo o que SREs PRECISAM saber sobre OpenTelemetry"
  description: >
    Todo mundo está falando sobre OpenTelemetry, mas é difícil saber o que é realmente relevante para nossa rotina de trabalho e o
    que pode ser seguramente ignorado. Essa apresentação pensada para SREs vai resolver isso, deixando claro o que as pessoas
    SREs precisam saber.
  location: "Fortaleza, CE, 🇧🇷"
  slides: /2022/2022-10-08-devopsdays-fortaleza/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'DevOpsDays Fortaleza'
  event_link: https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-fortaleza/program/juraci-paixao/

- id: 2022-01-18-kcd-brasil
  date: '2022-01-18'
  title: "Tudo o que você PRECISA saber sobre OpenTelemetry"
  description: >
    OpenTelemetry é um dos projetos mais recentes da CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) na área de observabilidade e já é o
    segundo mais ativo. Nessa sessão, Juraci Paixão Kröhling vai falar sobre os diferentes sub-projetos e como dar os primeiros
    passos com eles. Ainda que você já tenha ouvido falar sobre OpenTelemetry antes, você vai deixar essa sessão com um
    entendimento ainda melhor sobre o que é OpenTelemetry, quais são as peças neste quebra-cabeças e como utilizá-las com
    eficácia em seus projetos.
  location: "Virtual, 🇧🇷"
  recording: https://youtu.be/BVQpM01CZPI
  slides: /2022/2022-01-18-kcd-brasil/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Kubernetes Community Days Brasil 2022'
  event_link: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-brasil-presents-kubernetes-community-days-brasil-2022/

- id: 2021-11-10-devoops
  date: '2021-11-10'
  title: OpenTelemetry Collector deep dive
  description: >
    The OpenTelemetry Collector is a highly versatile software, able to process not only traces but also metrics and logs. It
    can be deployed in a variety of ways, with features like authentication, routing, load balancing, tail-based sampling, and
    so on. The tooling around the collector is also extensive, with extra modules and distributions as part of the "contrib"
    package as well as a CLI tool allowing you to build your own distribution, possibly with your custom components.
  location: "Virtual, St. Petersburg, 🇷🇺"
  recording: https://youtu.be/ZAsyfivg4iA
  slides: /2021/2021-11-10-devoops/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'DevOops 2021'
  event_link: https://devoops.ru/en/persons/XL9WCCXEaOVTG909shXQf/?version=2021

- id: 2021-10-13-kubecon-na
  date: '2021-10-13'
  title: OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment Patterns
  description: >
    The OpenTelemetry Collector is a versatile piece of software and can be deployed in numerous ways. In this talk, we'll explore
    some of these patterns, starting with the classic "agent and collector" and landing at "scalable tail-based sampling,"
    talking about "multi-tenancy" along the way. We'll see how they look in theory and practice with live demos on a real
    Kubernetes cluster. You'll leave this session with knowledge about some of the essential processors for the OpenTelemetry
    Collector, how to employ them individually, and as part of a vaster deployment topology.
  location: "Virtual, Los Angeles, 🇺🇸"
  recording: https://youtu.be/WhRrwSHDBFs
  slides: /2021/2021-10-13-kubecon-na/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021'
  event_link: https://sched.co/lV0z

- id: 2021-o11yfest
  date: '2021-05-17'
  title: Sampling in Distributed Tracing
  description: >
    Sampling is still one of the biggest challenges in distributed tracing. While the basic concept is easy to grasp, the number
    of choices and their trade-offs requires learning about the techniques and your own workload. In this session, we are giving
    you all the knowledge required to master the sampling techniques: we'll talk about head and tail-based sampling, as well as
    adaptive sampling, and we'll wrap it up with a bonus discussion on trace aggregation. You'll leave this session ready to
    implement scenarios, from the simple "probabilistic head-sampling" up to the complex "scalable tail-based sampling" using
    open source tools like OpenTelemetry Collector.
  location: "Online, 🌍"

- id: 2021-open-observability
  date: '2021-04-30'
  title: "Diving deep into Jaeger and OpenTelemetry with Juraci Paixão Kröhling"
  description: >
    We are thrilled to have Juraci Kröhling a Software Engineer at Red Hat; CNCF, Maintainer for Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. He
    will be live and in-person this month on the podcast in a discussion with Jonah Kowall who is the CTO at logz.io and
    contributor to Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch.
  location: "Online, 🌍"
  recording: https://youtu.be/lSY6yDw0Kmc

- id: 2021-cncf-linz
  date: '2021-04-27'
  title: All you need to know about OpenTelemetry
  description: >
    OpenTelemetry is one of the newest projects in the realm of Observability at the CNCF and is already the second most active
    project there. In this session, Juraci Paixão Kröhling will talk about the different subprojects and how to get started using
    them. Even if you heard about OpenTelemetry before, you'll leave this session with a better understanding of what this is all
    about, the several faces of OpenTelemetry, and what you can do to make your projects more observable.
  location: "Online, Linz, 🇦🇹"
  recording: https://youtu.be/bh0v6k6eLRw
  slides: /2021/2021-04-27-cncf-linz/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Cloud Native Computing Linz meetup'
  event_link: https://www.meetup.com/cloud-native-linz/events/277569639/

- id: 2020-12-05-devoops
  date: '2020-12-05'
  title: Distributed tracing deep dive
  description: >
    Distributed tracing has become a mandatory tool in every SRE's tool belt, but do you know enough to effectively use and
    manage a distributed tracing architecture? This talk will guide you through the components required to have a production-
    quality distributed tracing setup, including a quick demo showing what we want our tracing solution to tell us, followed by a
    discussion on the architecture of one of the most popular open source tracing solutions: Jaeger. We'll see how we can deploy
    it on bare metal and Kubernetes with Helm Charts, as well as with the Jaeger Operator, wrapping up with how we can observe
    our Jaeger instance by looking at the metrics it exposes. You'll leave this session knowing how to set up a world-class
    tracing solution.
  location: "Virtual, St. Petersburg, 🇷🇺"
  recording: https://youtu.be/6rzzE_MACME
  slides: /2020/2020-12-05-devoops/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'DevOops 2020'
  event_link: https://devoops.ru/en/talks/2BUFkIXRvoksycvOreFCOy

- id: 2020-fosdem
  date: '2020-02-02'
  title: Distributed Tracing for beginners
  description: >
    Distributed tracing is a tool that belongs to every developer's tool belt, but what it actually can do remains a mystery to
    most developers.
  location: "Brussels, 🇧🇪"

- id: 2019-devoxx
  date: '2019-11-06'
  title: 'Observing chaos: how distributed tracing brings observability to a service mess'
  description: >
    Service mesh tools, such as Istio and Linkerd, are being used to remove some of the networking complexity from our
    microservices' code. In exchange for that, we give up some of the ability to observe the networking decisions being made,
    turning our service mesh into an apparent chaos.
  location: "Antwerp, 🇧🇪"
  recording: https://youtu.be/FJ_YuUgIt8E

- id: 2019-kubecon-eu
  date: '2019-05-23'
  title: 'Intro + Deep Dive: Jaeger'
  description: >
    Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform, providing a way to monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed
    systems. In the first part, we'll introduce you to Jaeger, showing what it is capable of. We'll deploy a few microservices
    into a Kubernetes cluster and use distributed tracing to help us see what's going on. After this brief demo, you'll learn how
    to engage with the community and how to make your first contribution to the project. In the second part of this talk, we'll
    explain in details what are all the moving pieces and how they work together. You'll also learn about the different
    deployment strategies and advanced configuration options. And finally, we'll have a Q&A session at the end with project
    maintainers.
  location: "Barcelona, 🇪🇸"
  recording: https://youtu.be/Edy2vd7bh5U

- id: 2019-redhat-summit
  date: '2019-05-09'
  title: What are my microservices doing?
  description: >
    Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform, providing a way to monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed
    systems. In the first part, we'll introduce you to Jaeger, showing what it is capable of. We'll deploy a few microservices
    into a Kubernetes cluster and use distributed tracing to help us see what's going on. After this brief demo, you'll learn how
    to engage with the community and how to make your first contribution to the project. In the second part of this talk, we'll
    explain in details what are all the moving pieces and how they work together. You'll also learn about the different
    deployment strategies and advanced configuration options. And finally, we'll have a Q&A session at the end with project
    maintainers.
  location: "Boston, MA, 🇺🇸"

- id: 2019-gids
  date: '2019-04-25'
  title: Advanced Distributed Tracing
  description: ''
  location: "Bangalore, 🇮🇳"

- id: 2018-10-25-tracingsummit
  date: '2018-10-25'
  title: Introduction to OpenTracing
  description: >
    OpenTracing is a vendor neutral specification aimed to define the semantics for distributed tracing, hosted at the Cloud
    Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In this talk, we'll provide an introduction to the OpenTracing projects and its goals, as
    well as an overview of the available instrumentation libraries.
  location: "Edinburgh, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿"
  recording: https://youtu.be/OS2rAQFePeM
  slides: /2018/2018-10-25-tracingsummit/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Tracing Summit'
  event_link: https://tracingsummit.org/ts/2018/

- id: 2018-10-24-opensourcesummit
  date: '2018-10-24'
  title: What are My Microservices Doing?
  description: >
    Microservices have become the standard for new architectures. But the microservices architecture presents some new
    challenges. One of them is the so-called "Observability problem", where it is hard to know which services exist, how they
    interrelate, and how important each one is. In this talk, we'll look at an application that includes three Java
    microservices. We'll use OpenTracing and Jaeger to help identify what they are doing and how they interrelate, following a
    "no instrumentation" approach, a "full instrumentation" approach, as well as "something in between" using service mesh
    instrumentation with Istio.
  location: "Edinburgh, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿"
  slides: /2018/2018-10-24-opensourcesummit/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Open Source Summit'
  event_link: https://sched.co/MPkv

- id: 2018-devnation
  date: '2018-06-21'
  title: Advanced Microservices Tracing with Jaeger
  description: >
    A significant challenge of moving from a traditional monolithic application design to a microservices-based architecture is
    the ability to monitor the business transaction flow of events throughout your entire distributed system. Join us for the
    next online DevNation Live on June 21st at 12pm EDT for Advanced Microservices Tracing with Jaeger, presented by Red Hat
    software engineers Pavol Loffay and Juraci Paixão Kröhling.
  location: "Virtual, 🌍"
  recording: https://youtu.be/hpnLUFRY4_Y

- id: 2018-soujava
  date: '2018-05-27'
  title: "Introdução à OpenTracing e Jaeger"
  description: >
    Arquitetura de microsserviços se tornou a arquitetura padrão para novas aplicações. Mas ela traz consigo novos desafios. Um
    deles é o tão chamado "Problema de Observabilidade", representando a dificuldade em se saber quais serviços existem, como se
    relacionam e qual a importância de cada um. Nesta apresentação, vamos dar uma olhada em três serviços bem simples em Java
    simulando uma aplicação seguindo o modelo de microsserviços. Usaremos então as bibliotecas OpenTracing e Jaeger para
    identificar o que nossos serviços estão fazendo e como se relacionam.
  location: "Online, 🇧🇷"
  recording: https://youtu.be/ARaMOdZ54mo

- id: 2018-05-03-kubecon-eu-deepdive
  date: '2018-05-03'
  title: Jaeger Project Deep Dive
  description: ''
  location: "Copenhagen, 🇩🇰"
  slides: /2018/2018-05-03-kubecon-eu-deepdive/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018'
  event_link: https://sched.co/Drnv

- id: 2018-05-02-kubecon-eu-intro
  date: '2018-05-02'
  title: Jaeger Project Intro
  description: ''
  location: "Copenhagen, 🇩🇰"
  slides: /2018/2018-05-02-kubecon-eu-intro/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018'
  event_link: https://sched.co/DrnB

- id: 2018-gids
  date: '2018-04-27'
  title: What are my Microservices Doing?
  description: ''
  location: "Bangalore, 🇮🇳"

- id: 2018-meetup
  date: '2018-03-21'
  title: Deep Dive into Java Microservices - The Observability Problem
  description: ''
  location: "Munich, 🇩🇪"

- id: 2018-javaland
  date: '2018-03-14'
  title: Finding Performance Bottlenecks with Distributed Tracing
  description: >
    Microservices are now the standard for new architectures. Their distributed nature makes it harder to determine the causes of
    a performance bottleneck, as one can't just watch a single process and see the big picture. In this talk, you'll learn how to
    instrument a business application (Spring Boot, Vert.x, Wildfly Swarm) with the OpenTracing API and use a tracing backend
    solution like Jaeger and/or a metrics solution like Prometheus to find, fix, and measure performance improvements to our
    distributed application.
  location: "Brühl, 🇩🇪"

- id: 2017-09-11-opensourcesummit
  date: '2017-09-11'
  title: 'OpenTracing: One Instrumentation for Metrics, Logs and Distributed Tracing'
  description: >
    Understanding how your microservices based application is executing in a highly distributed and elastic cloud environment can
    be complicated. CNCF OpenTracing is a new standard to help provide observability within such an environment. With the help
    from Jaeger, an OpenTracing compatible distributed tracing system, we will show how instrumenting an application using the
    OpenTracing API can provide not only tracing information, showing the path of execution through a set of cooperating
    services, but also application metrics and contextualised logging information, to help diagnose problems in highly
    distributed applications.
  location: "Los Angeles, CA, 🇺🇸"
  slides: /2017/2017-09-11-opensourcesummit/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'Open Source Summit'
  event_link: https://sched.co/Boku

- id: 2017-cloudnative-night
  date: '2017-05-23'
  title: Operational and Business Insights from Tracing Distributed Microservices
  description: >
    In this talk we will present Hawkular APM, an OpenTracing-compliant community project. We will demonstrate how the project can
    be used to monitor microservices in a cloud environment, capturing trace and business metric information, which can then be
    presented in both aggregated and individual trace views to provide useful insight for many roles within an organisation.
  location: "Munich, 🇩🇪"

- id: 2017-microservices-meetup
  date: '2017-05-04'
  title: OpenTracing
  description: >
    Microservice architecture brings new challenges for monitoring an application state and health in production environments. One
    of the necessary components for a successful operation is distributed tracing. In this presentation we will discuss the common
    complications of distributed tracing while exploring the emerging implementation-agnostic API OpenTracing. We'll use a sample
    application to extract business and operational insights based on tracing data.
  location: "Munich, 🇩🇪"

- id: 2017-lightweight-java-user-group
  date: '2017-04-25'
  title: Operational and Business Insights from Tracing Distributed Microservices
  description: >
    Microservice architecture brings new challenges for monitoring of an application state and health in production environments.
    One of the necessary components for successful operation is distributed tracing.


    In this presentation we will discuss the common complications of distributed tracing while exploring the emerging
    implementation-agnostic API OpenTracing. We'll use a sample application extracting business and operational insights based on
    tracing data.
  location: "Munich, 🇩🇪"

- id: 2017-03-29-kubecon-eu
  date: '2017-03-29'
  title: Operational and Business Insights from Tracing Distributed Microservices
  description: >
    In this talk we will present Hawkular APM, an OpenTracing-compliant community project. We will demonstrate how the project can
    be used to monitor microservices in a cloud environment, capturing trace and business metric information, which can then be
    presented in both aggregated and individual trace views to provide useful insight for many roles within an organisation.
  location: "Berlin, 🇩🇪"
  slides: /2017/2017-03-29-kubecon-eu/slides.pdf
  event_name: 'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017'
  event_link: https://sched.co/9Tbl
  recording: https://youtu.be/dmMWaTZE5gQ