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Observability Without Lock-In: The Power of Open Standards

Observability is essential for modern cloud-native applications, yet many teams struggle with vendor lock-in, rising costs, and fragmented tooling. This ignite talk explores how open observability standards,OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Perses for monitoring-as-code, empower teams to break free from proprietary constraints. Learn how these CNCF-backed projects enable vendor-neutral, scalable, and future-proof observability stacks. We'll cover auto-instrumentation, open dashboards, and best practices to help you own your telemetry, reduce costs, and gain deeper insights.

From Signals to Standards: Unifying Platform Engineering and Observability

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, platform engineering and observability have been on parallel journeys of transformation. Kubernetes has revolutionized how we run containers everywhere, standardizing platforms for infrastructure. Similarly, OpenTelemetry is standardizing telemetry collection, enabling developers to own and understand their systems with ease.

In this talk, we’ll explore the history of platform engineering and the evolution of observability - from fragmented signals to unified platforms built on open standards. We’ll dive into how platform engineering introduced self-service and abstraction to empower developers and how observability platforms, like OpenTelemetry, are achieving similar goals through auto-instrumentation and open ecosystems.

Discover the emerging trends, from dashboards-as-code with Perses to how standardization allows teams to install the "last observability agent" and focus on what truly matters: delivering exceptional software. Let’s recognize the power of community-driven innovation and the bright future of platforms built on open standards.

Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability

Observability is the backbone of modern cloud-native applications, but many organizations find themselves locked into proprietary tools with rising costs, rigid ecosystems, and limited flexibility. In this talk, we’ll explore how open observability standards like OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Perses for monitoring-as-code are transforming the landscape by enabling vendor-neutral, scalable, and future-proof observability stacks.

We’ll start with an introduction to OpenTelemetry, covering how to get started, instrument applications, and provide developer-friendly abstractions for seamless auto-instrumentation. From there, we’ll dive into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox project that brings open, declarative, and portable dashboards to observability. By building on these open standards, organizations gain the freedom to mix and match storage, visualization, and analytics tools without being tied to a single vendor.

Join this session to learn how OpenTelemetry and Perses can help you scale observability, stay in control of your data, and ensure developers get the insights they need exactly when they need them.

Shifting Security Left While Building A Cloud Native Bank

Building a digital bank requires a unique combination of agility and speed while maintaining the highest level of security.
Lunar, a digital challenger bank in the Nordics, has always had technology and agility as a differentiator. Lunar was built for the cloud, with Cloud Native principles, such as microservices, containers, and container orchestration amongst others.
In this presentation Kasper will present some insights into the principles on which the Lunar infrastructure was built on, the continuous focus on security, and how application security is shifting left and becoming a developer concern. Kasper will discuss the challenges faced and conquered in the process of transitioning from a fintech startup to a bank with its own banking license.

Two years in production with Kubernetes - an experience report

At Lunar Way we have been running Kubernetes in production for over two years. This presentation will be an experience report of the challenges we faced and how we overcome them. We started running Kubernetes in March 2017 to support at that time, 7 microservices. Today we manage around 80 microservices in production. In this presentation, Kasper will touch upon topics such as; finding the right abstraction (do developers need to care about Docker and Kubernetes?), Release Management with Git as the single source of truth (GitOps), and lastly Kubernetes Operations (kops) and the quirks that it comes with.

A Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Engineer

In the cloud native universe, Kubernetes engineers are the unsung heroes--who wrangle YAML, tame logs and brave production crises. While AI steals the spotlight, challenges of managing Kubernetes remain in the shadows. Platform engineers, often grappling with relentless war room calls rarely get the stage they deserve.
For the first time, we’ll dive into the untold stories of platform engineers: triumphs and the grit it takes to navigate the complexities of Kubernetes. This is a celebration of the human side of cloud native, told through anecdotes, technical insights and lessons learned from the trenches.

Join industry experts as they explore:
- Critical skills for resolving production issues
- Successes & failures that define their journeys
- Balancing ecosystem health
- Secure practices for AI workloads
- Reducing Kubernetes complexity

Join us for unfiltered insights, empowering stories and actionable takeaways to inspire your Kubernetes journey—you, too, deserve to be heard.