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Observability Insights From KubeCon 2024 - Summary

In this video, I’m breaking down the biggest themes and key takeaways from KubeCon 2024’s observability sessions. From OpenTelemetry’s growing role as the standard for telemetry data to how AI and continuous profiling are shaping the future of proactive, scalable and cost-effective observability. If you missed KubeCon 2024 or want to stay on top of observability trends, this recap will get you up to speed in just a few minutes.

The top three insights from Gartner IOCS 2024

BigPanda was honored to be a premier sponsor of Gartner’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference (IOCS) in Las Vegas, Nevada. This event allowed us to showcase the latest BigPanda capabilities, connect with industry leaders, and gain valuable insights into the future of IT operations. For those who couldn’t attend, here are the three most impactful insights from my conversations with the customers, vendors, and analysts at IOCS 2024.

AWS re:Invent 2024: A Week of Innovation and Excitement

AWS re:Invent 2024 brought together a record-breaking 80,000 attendees in Las Vegas to explore the latest innovations in cloud computing, from generative AI to sustainability. In this post, Justin Ryburn shares his key takeaways from the event, highlighting AWS’s vision for the future and the vibrant energy of the conference.

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference recap: Reshaping enterprise observability with Next-Gen AIOps

For IT teams, the signal-to-noise ratio isn’t just a technical inconvenience—it’s the tipping point between operational success and systemic failure in today’s modern enterprises. At the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) Conference 2024, this critical issue took center stage.

AWS re:Invent '24: Generative AI Observability, Platform Engineering, and 99.9995% Availability

I attended Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference. This is AWS's annual user conference, which takes over most of Las Vegas for a week. There’s a lot to do and take in—customer stories galore, new tech, learning different use cases, and all the walking. But you’re here to hear what I learned, so I’ve broken it down into sections. Enjoy!

re:Invent Recap Livestream: 2024

Did you miss this year’s re:Invent? Or maybe you were onsite but too busy deep diving on certifications, new products, and networking. Don’t worry—the Datadog team is streaming right to your home on December 17 to recap all of the highlights from the event. Join Andrew Krug from Datadog’s Technical Community along with a host of AWS guests to hear about exciting announcements from AWS re:Invent 2024, Datadog’s latest product launches, and a rundown of the best on-demand sessions that you’ll want to make sure to tune into.

AutoCon2: The Network of the Future is Automated

AutoCon2 gathered network automation professionals in Denver for three days of insights, workshops, and discussions on the future of automation. Justin Ryburn, Kentik Field CTO, shares his key takeaways, highlights, and why this conference stands out as a top destination for the network automation community.

Lasting Impressions and Technical Tidbits From AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024 has officially wrapped up, but not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. We're still gushing over the reception our booth team received from attendees—and we were excited to see even more organizations going all-in on application delivery and security. Naturally, AWS integration was a constant backdrop throughout the week as we showcased the HAProxy platform.

Our team's learnings from Kubecon: Use Exemplars, Configuring OTel, and OTTL cookbook

A few weeks ago, members of Mezmo were at Kubecon and attended several sessions. You can see a post with my recap and session highlights. Today, though, I’m going to discuss three sessions that my colleagues found interesting for our peers in Observability.