Software Defined Interviews: The Octopus Organization, with Jana Werner

KubeCon North America: Beyond the Dashboard: Modern Observability for Platform Engineering at Scale

Edera: Cloud Native Quizmas Clash

Observability 2.0 with OpenTelemetry: Make Signals Work Together

Observability got bigger than “three pillars” and a dashboard. Observability 2.0 is about correlation, not merely collection, so teams can ask meaningful questions and get useful answers. In this Thunder episode, Whitney Lee and guest Adriana Villela discuss how the OpenTelemetry model aligns signals into one story across the software development lifecycle. They walk through a practical flow: instrument code first, let QA use telemetry (or ask for more), add trace-based testing for integration checks, and help SREs anchor SLIs/SLOs to traces so incidents stop feeling like needle-in-a-haystack hunts.

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Cloud Native Denmark: Panel: Navigating the Deep Waters of AI: Beyond Vanity Metrics

[Keynote] Cloud Native Denmark: This Lying Has to Stop: Keeping AI Honest with OpenTelemetry

Joining an early morning outing with the Durham chapter of the Feminist Bird Club

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Short days & cozy nights

MetalBear: What Cloud Native Looked Like in 2025: A Community Recap

Software Defined Interviews: Whitney goes to KubeCon

Software Defined Talk: Whitney goes to KubeCon

Software Defined Interviews: AI Tools Lab, conferences, devrel, with Jason Hand

KubeFM: From beginner’s mind to teaching Kubernetes: Learning in public and building community

🌩️ Thunder: Fluent Bit Explained: Data Pipelines for Observability

DevOps Paradox: KubeCon North America 2025 Review

Software Defined Interviews: Transformation, DevOps, Open Source, and Fast Food Operations, with Andrew Clay Shafer

Observability Day: How to Trust a Liar: Instrumenting AI Execution with OpenTelemetry

🌩️ Thunder: Logging Operator: Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Logging

Platform Engineering Day: Let the Platform Build Itself: Using AI To Construct an Internal Developer Platform With CNCF Tools

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day: This Lying Has to Stop: Keeping AI Honest with OpenTelemetry