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DevOpsDays Berlin 2024 | Submit your Talk

von Katja Kotschenreuther | Jan 10, 2024 | Events

Call for Papers

The organizers of this year’s DevOpsDays Berlin are still looking for speakers to provide an amazing lecture program. Their Call for Papers is open until January 31. You’re welcomed to submit your talk as the organizers are seeking presentations in English that focus on experiences and best practices related to the DevOps culture, along with topics covering automation, testing, security, and organizational culture.

There are two different talk formats you can choose from:

30-Minute Talk: Presented during the conference, typically in the morning.
Ignite Talk: A five-minute presentation with 20 slides that change every 15 seconds.

If you’re interested in leading a group discussion during the attendee-suggested Open Space breakout sessions, there’s no need to propose it ahead of time; you can contribute on-site.

Early Bird Alert

The Early Bird sale is running out soon and discounted tickets are available until January 31. Be sure to grab one of them and join DevOpsDays Berlin for the best price possible.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsors also have to option to join the event by choosing one of the available sponsorship packages: Silver, Gold or Platinum. Each package offers different benefits to present your brand to your target audience. Check out the table at the conference website and see what suits you the best. If you are interested in sponsoring, please drop the organizers an email. They are looking forward to hearing from you!

About DevOpsDays

DevOpsDays is a global series of technical conferences that delve into software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Organized entirely by local volunteers, each event is a collaborative effort that brings together professionals and enthusiasts from the respective region. This year’s DevOpsDays in Berlin will take place on May 7 & 8. The event combines curated talks and self-organized open space content.

Katja Kotschenreuther

Manager Marketing

Katja ist seit Oktober 2020 Teil des Marketing Teams. Als Manager Marketing kümmert sie sich hauptsächlich um das Marketing für die Konferenzen stackconf und OSMC sowie unsere Trainings. Zudem unterstützt sie das Icinga Team mit verschiedenen Social Media Kampagnen und der Bewerbung der Icinga Camps. Sie ist SEO-Verantwortliche für all unsere Websites und sehr viel in unserem Blog unterwegs. In ihrer Freizeit reist sie gerne, bastelt, backt und engagiert sich bei Foodsharing. Im Sommer kümmert sie sich außerdem um ihren viel zu großen Gemüseanbau.

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stackconf 2023 | Scaling a Collaboration Service like Nextcloud to 20 Million users

von Sebastian Zwing | Jan 2, 2024 | stackconf

Let’s reminisce about stackconf 2023, which brought many insights, first-hand expert knowledge and inspiring ideas. In this blog series, we introduce you to our keynote speakers and their presentations at stackconf.
The next suggestion by Frank Karlitschek, „Scaling a Collaboration Service like Nextcloud to 20 Million users“ deals with the scaling of Nextcloud instances across different hosting centers.

A Short Summary of the Topic

Frank highlights the increasing centralization of user data by large US companies and advocates retaining control over personal data, protecting privacy and avoiding dependence on a few providers. To achieve these goals, open source, self-hosted and federated alternatives are recommended. He emphasizes that the internet and web are based on a distributed architecture and cloud services should follow this model. The talk presents an example of how a Nextcloud instance with 20 million users can be scaled across different hosting centers and continents. Both conceptual approaches and concrete implementations of Kubernetes, Ceph and MariaDB Clustering will be presented.

Watch Frank´s Talk

Check out his presentation video and his slides. It is a good opportunity to review key points and gain a more comprehensive understanding of the topic covered.

Stay in the Loop

Save the date for stackconf 2024 on June 18 and 19 in your calendar! We´re currently looking for speakers that help us shape the next conference program. Talk proposals can be submitted until March 31. Our Early Bird tickets are available until February 29. Secure yours now, stay up to date and sign up for our newsletter!

Sebastian Zwing

Marketing Specialist

Sebastian verstärkt seit November 2023 unser Marketingteam. Als Marketing Specialist wird er die Kommunikation der NETWAYS GmbH weiter mit ausbauen und neue Ideen einbringen. Seine Freizeit verbringt Sebastian gerne auf Reisen, als Hobbykoch in der Küche oder am Grill, an der frischen Luft, an und auf dem Wasser, oder auf dem Zweirad.

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OSMC 2023 | What’s new with Grafana Labs’s Open Source Observability stack

von Dirk Götz | Dez 29, 2023 | OSMC

I already mentioned in my recap of this year’s OSMC that I will go into more details about Sebastian Schubert’s talk giving an update on Grafana Labs’s Open Source Observability stack. In fact, I was so interested in the topic I volunteered for this blog post and made our Event team assign me the talk.
You may ask why, so you very likely are one of those who know Grafana very well but have not heard of all the other tools Grafana Labs has added to their stack over the last years. I myself just started a while ago digging deeper into it, and it feels like I can find some gold nugget down there. So I want to spread the word and perhaps cause a gold rush! 😉

Grafana

Sebastian started with a short introduction of him and by asking the audience who knows Grafana. He was excited for sure that everyone in crowd did know about Grafana. So let’s start with the updates on Grafana. With Grafana being around for quite a while and having become the dashboard solution to go for most people it does not wonder that the most improvements are small but helpful convenience features. His examples were how the empty dashboard and panel editor were improved to help users to get the best representation of their data. Another improvement was the UI helping specifically with writing TraceQL queries instead of just taking an already existing statement which could be hard to come up with.

A completely new thing is the Visual Studio Code integration for editing and previewing dashboards. Looking at the number of colleagues using it, seeing integrating in many other tools as their Web IDE (integrated development environment) and personally thinking it is the best solution developed by Microsoft, having such an integration will make many people happy and grow the user base further.

But Grafana Labs does not only want to grow the user base, they also want to make developer’s life easier by working on a Developer Portal which combines all related information in one place. Please learn a lesson from this if working on a project where it is hard to get all the information needed to get into it!

Mimir

While Mimir is also around for some time, the metric solution of the stack needs some introduction especially compared to its more well-known competitors. Mimir is the (or one) successor of Cortex and the equivalent to Grafana Enterprise Metrics as an Open Source solution. Something Grafana Labs did with the complete stack, providing an equivalent to its Enterprise solution for the community as true Open Source.

Mimir was extended and improved over the last year. Most improvements I would summarize as performance enhancement in some way. But there were also new features added like allowing for alerts being sent to Webex or support for Redis as caching solution and Hashicorp Vault for more secure credential storage.

Loki

Loki has a similar problem like Mimir. It has more established competitors as log management solutions so it is not known by so many people, but I think it has some advantages you should be aware of. Sebastian did compare it more to Prometheus than its competitors as it uses a similar label-based design. On his format slide he explained this very well that an entry for Loki consists of a timestamp in nanoseconds and labels which get indexed to speed up queries and the not indexed content allowing for post-processing where all other solutions require you to optimize your data for the expected queries already before storing them.

As you may guess post-processing could be the bottleneck in such a design, but Loki has solved this already quite well and Grafana Labs is constantly reducing the resource consumption what made me happy to hear.

Tempo and all the other components

Speaking about Tempo Sebastian had to increase his at this point of the talk recognizing he can barely fit all the updates from one year for the complete stack in one talk. So starting with the solution for traces he got less into details. Tempo is comparable to the other solutions mentioned earlier but for traces and for this it needs many data.

Beyla is another tool for tracing with a release pending and very likely to be shown in detail to the public in the near future.

Faro adds Frontend/Browser monitoring to the stack allowing to get details on the real user experience.

And last but not least Pyroscope adds profiling which makes the stack cover a very big amount of data. All of those being visualized in the end as a dashboard in Grafana.

So I really recommend at least having a look into the stack and watching the recording of Sebastian Schubert’s talk „What’s new with Grafana Labs’s Open Source Observability stack“ is a good starting point for this! Another starting point could be our training on InfluxDB & Grafana.

We hope to see you around at OSMC 2024! Stay in touch and subscribe to our Newsletter!

Dirk Götz

Principal Consultant

Dirk ist Red Hat Spezialist und arbeitet bei NETWAYS im Bereich Consulting für Icinga, Puppet, Ansible, Foreman und andere Systems-Management-Lösungen. Früher war er bei einem Träger der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung als Senior Administrator beschäftigt und auch für die Ausbildung der Azubis verantwortlich wie nun bei NETWAYS.

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DevOpsDays 2024 | Call for Participation

von Katja Kotschenreuther | Dez 19, 2023 | Events

About DevOpsDays

DevOpsDays is a global series of technical conferences that delve into software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Organized entirely by local volunteers, each event is a collaborative effort that brings together professionals and enthusiasts from the respective region. This year’s DevOpsDays in Berlin will take place on May 7 & 8. The event combines curated talks and self-organized open space content.

Speaking at DevOpsDays

The organizers are actively seeking speakers for their upcoming event in Berlin. The Call for Papers is open until January 31, 2024. If you have valuable insights to share, they encourage you to submit your talk. Presentations in English that focus on experiences and best practices related to the DevOps culture, along with topics covering automation, testing, security, and organizational culture are appreciated.

You have the option to choose from two different lecture formats:

30-Minute Talk: Presented during the conference, typically in the morning.
Ignite Talk: A five-minute presentation with 20 slides that change every 15 seconds.

For those interested in leading a group discussion during the attendee-suggested Open Space breakout sessions, there’s no need to propose it ahead of time; you can contribute on-site.

Early Bird Tickets

Registration for the conference is already possible. Make sure to be an early bird and get one of the discounted tickets until January 31.

Let’s meet again at DevOpsDays Berlin!

Katja Kotschenreuther

Manager Marketing

Katja ist seit Oktober 2020 Teil des Marketing Teams. Als Manager Marketing kümmert sie sich hauptsächlich um das Marketing für die Konferenzen stackconf und OSMC sowie unsere Trainings. Zudem unterstützt sie das Icinga Team mit verschiedenen Social Media Kampagnen und der Bewerbung der Icinga Camps. Sie ist SEO-Verantwortliche für all unsere Websites und sehr viel in unserem Blog unterwegs. In ihrer Freizeit reist sie gerne, bastelt, backt und engagiert sich bei Foodsharing. Im Sommer kümmert sie sich außerdem um ihren viel zu großen Gemüseanbau.

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stackconf 2024 | Save the Date!

von Katja Kotschenreuther | Dez 15, 2023 | NETWAYS, stackconf

Save the Date!

Announcing stackonf 2024! We look forward to meeting you once again to exchange the latest news about cloud native infrastructure solutions! Next year’s event will take place on June 18 and 19 in Berlin. So, mark your calendars and don’t miss out!

That’s stackconf

At stackconf we have a look at cloud native solutions for IT infrastructures based on open source that help with continuous integration, containers, hybrid setups, and cloud technologies. Experts from around the world will talk about how to link development, testing, and operations. The event will have talks on different topics related to the whole process of developing and running systems. You can learn about new and creative ways to use technology and what will shape the future.

Contribute & Submit your Lecture Idea

What about rocking the stage at stackconf? Our Call for Papers is open until March 31. We’re looking for lectures focusing on a comprehensive technical insight. Your audience should have a real benefit by learning about new topics or open source projects, technical backgrounds, how-tos, etc. Chose from the following three different options the one that suits you best:

IGNITE TALK | Five minutes to talk accompanied by 20 slides, 15 seconds each.
MEDIUM TALK | The short lecture format limited to 30 minutes, including a Q&A session.
FULL TALK | The long lecture format of 45 minutes, including a Q&A session.

Early Bird Alert!

Tickets for the conference are already on sale! Use the chance and grab one of our Early Bird tickets to save your seat. These are available until February 29.

Stay tuned and get the latest news by subscribing to our newsletter!

Katja Kotschenreuther

Manager Marketing

Katja ist seit Oktober 2020 Teil des Marketing Teams. Als Manager Marketing kümmert sie sich hauptsächlich um das Marketing für die Konferenzen stackconf und OSMC sowie unsere Trainings. Zudem unterstützt sie das Icinga Team mit verschiedenen Social Media Kampagnen und der Bewerbung der Icinga Camps. Sie ist SEO-Verantwortliche für all unsere Websites und sehr viel in unserem Blog unterwegs. In ihrer Freizeit reist sie gerne, bastelt, backt und engagiert sich bei Foodsharing. Im Sommer kümmert sie sich außerdem um ihren viel zu großen Gemüseanbau.

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