Agenda:

16:30: Doors open, find a seat or network :)

17:00: Welcome by Cloud Native Aalborg

17:05: Welcome by Trifork

17:10: Building Actionable Grafana Dashboards and Effective Alerting

18:00: Break & food

18:30: Understanding Platform Engineering

20:00: Thank you and good night!

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Building Actionable Grafana Dashboards and Effective Alerting
by Christoffer Hollesen from Trifork

How do you build the perfect Grafana dashboard? Dashboards are more than just data—they tell the story of your system's health, performance, and cost-efficiency. But how do you ensure they deliver the most value for your customers, developers, or operations teams? 

In this session, we will explore the key metrics that matter and how to design Grafana dashboards tailored to various stakeholders. Whether you're looking to boost developer productivity, enhance operational visibility, or offer your customers clearer insights, we’ll cover the essential strategies to create intuitive, impactful dashboards.

We'll dive into common observability metrics and best practices, ensuring you don’t drown in data but instead focus on actionable insights. Plus, we’ll showcase practical examples, including dashboards designed to track Azure costs, Jira stats, Statuspage uptime, and more.

Speaker bio:

Christoffer is 25 years old and lives in Nørresundby with his girlfriend and their two dogs. Outside of work, he enjoys staying active through workouts and indulging his curiosity in reverse engineering. With a background in observability at large consulting firms, Christoffer is now part of Trifork, where he focuses on leveraging the three pillars of observability to help clients and developers gain deeper insights into their systems. His passion lies in empowering customers and developers to work smarter, ensuring more efficient, safer software development, and better operational outcomes.

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Understanding Platform Engineering

by Allan Højgaard Jensen from Netic

Developing the best platform for developers to use is not an straightforward or easy task, however getting this right can be a tremendous advantage for developers in their effort to produce domain functionality better, faster and easier.

In the recent couple of years the Platform Engineering discipline has gained quite some momentum, where goals are reducing cognitive load on developers and provide that platform functionality enabling developers. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has published a white paper and a maturity model for Platform Engineering and assessment.

I have worked with platform development for a number of years and thus this session is using the two publications as a starting point and pour a mix of personal experiences on top with the goal of getting a better and down to earth understanding of platforms.

Speaker bio:

Allan has been working with platform development for almost 5 years as a Platform Development Specialist in Netic on a platform which has been named Contain. Allan has been working with distributed systems and tooling for a lifetime. Always aiming for increasing feature speed and thus increasing value for developers and users.