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Edition 2026
Keynote: The hidden cognitive cost of cloud-native sprawl: making (and surviving) hundreds of choices a day
Every day, cloud-native developers navigate an ecosystem that has exploded in complexity. Hundreds of tools to choose from and of configuration options, and thousands of micro-decisions daily. This talk applies behavioral economics and cognitive psychology to explain why making technical choices is so mentally exhausting and what we can do about it. You'll learn the science behind decision fatigue, how cognitive biases shape our architecture decisions, and practical strategies to reduce the cognitive load on your teams.
Edition 2025
Observability is Shifting Left: Are You Ready?
Traditionally, observability has lived in the world of DevOps—focused on monitoring production systems and detecting failures after the fact. But in modern, distributed architectures, that’s too little, too late. As systems grow in complexity, teams are realizing that observability needs to shift left—integrated earlier in the development cycle to support debugging, testing, and faster feedback loops. In this talk we’ll cover the common challenges teams face when trying to implement observability during development and how developers, QA, and platform engineers can all benefit from implementing it before code reaches production. By the end of this session, you’ll walk away with a clear roadmap to make observability a first-class part of your development workflow—accelerating issue resolution, improving collaboration across teams, and delivering more reliable software faster.