Let’s reflect together on the highlights of stackconf 2023. In this blog series, we present our featured speakers and their presentations, which provided us with first-class expert knowledge and inspiring ideas. Today we remember Alayshia Nighten with her presentation “Cooking up o11y w/ Feature Flagging”.
Summary
Alayshia explains how feature flags provide the ability to flexibly enable or disable code without having to make source code changes.
Feature flags provide the ability to flexibly enable or disable code without having to change the source code. In combination with Observability (o11y), the result is an extremely powerful combination.
Alayshia shows not only the technical aspects, but also the business implications. The combination of o11y and feature flags enables teams to understand in real time.
This provides unprecedented transparency and understanding of complex systems.
Alayshia’s Talk
Take advantage of the presentation video along with her slides. This presents a fantastic opportunity to revisit key points of the discussed topic.
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Paul’s approach emphasizes the need to redefine DevOps tools to meet the original goals of the movement by breaking down existing silos and improving communication. The featured systems initiative presents a modern, simulation-based workflow that enables real-time, multiplayer and multimodal collaboration to increase productivity in infrastructure management.
Anaïs points out that security-specific tools often only come into focus when they are urgently needed or when something bad has happened. While larger companies establish safety teams, many smaller organizations and individuals are left without this resource. The first part of her presentation discusses the parallels between climbing and the need for a safety mindset. Without safety specialists on the team, it could be risky for most cluster administrators, similar to free climbing, which is more suited to experienced experts. In the second part, Anais shows how cloud native security tools such as Trivy can be integrated into existing processes and monitoring systems. The goal is to equip Kubernetes cluster administrators and engineers with the necessary tools and knowledge to ensure the security of their resources without having to be experts in the field themselves.
