KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Full Schedule

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1-4 April 2025
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09:26 BST

Keynote: Into the Black Box: Observability in the Age of LLMs - Christine Yen, CEO and Cofounder, Honeycomb

Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:26 - 09:41 BST

Level 0 | ICC Auditorium

LLMs can provide a quick injection of magic into an existing product (or product concept)! Most of us looking to build on LLMs aren't ML engineers or AI experts, after all, and this new wave of LLM offerings makes it easy for any of us to build something delightful.

But once that product or feature is shipped, in production, in front of users, the problems all collapse back into something that feels awfully familiar: performance challenges, questionable accuracy, and unhappy or confused users.

This talk will assert that building on LLMs is just like buliding on top of any other sort of black box in our architecture (APIs, DBs, etc)—this one just happens to be inherently unpredictable and probablistic.

We'll cover how to leverage observability best practices (like SLOs!) in this highly parameterized and rapidly evolving world, with nondeterministic outputs and a bunch of perceived risks—and you'll emerge more confident and ready to deal with this new AI-driven world.

Speakers

Christine Yen

CEO/Cofounder, Honeycomb

Christine is the CEO/cofounder of Honeycomb, an observability tool for teams who build and manage software that matters. She cares deeply about bridging the gap between devs and ops with technological and cultural improvements—and thinks that observability is really just a way... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:26 - 09:41 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium

Keynote Sessions, Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

09:48 BST

Keynote: AI Enabled Observability Explainers - We Actually Did Something With AI! - Vijay Samuel, Principal MTS, Architect, eBay

Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:48 - 10:03 BST

Level 0 | ICC Auditorium

If folks think that this will be yet another hand wavy AI talk, prepared to be disappointed! Over the last few quarters, the Observability platform team at eBay has embarked on the journey of building "Explainers" for telemetry signals. "So, you are just shoving data into an LLM, big deal!" - one might say. The approach that we took was slightly different. Yes, an LLM does know how to interpret an OTEL trace waterfall but does it do it predictably? No! For various reasons. This is where AI and Engineering have a beautiful marriage. For each signal, we have carefully married crafty algorithms and LLMs to create more predictable and accurate AI enabled experiences. Some of which include explaining traces, metrics and logs.

We have also cumulated these building block explainers to create compound explainers that can explain dashboards. This talk describes how things like critical path detection along with LLMs are better than just giving entire traces to the LLMs and more.

Speakers

Vijay Samuel

Principal MTS, Architect, eBay

Vijay Samuel works with eBay's Reliability Engineering as its architect. During his time at eBay Vijay has transformed eBay's observability platform into a cloud native offering that is primarily built on top of open source technologies. He loves to code in Go and play video game... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:48 - 10:03 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium

Keynote Sessions, Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate