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Embracing Observability in Distributed Systems.
No system is completely reliable, especially distributed systems, and debugging production is hard. If you are unsure how to use observability to build and manage dependencies in your distributed systems, deep-dive with world-class practitioners and discover how to implement observability in every stage of the software development life cycle—design, development, testing, and deployment.
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InfoQ Live at a glance:
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3 speaker Q&As
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More than just talking heads.
Deep-dive with world-class professionals through technical talks, facilitated Q&As, and roundtable discussions.
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Get answers to your questions from world-class domain experts to support your learning journey.
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Turn advice from world-class software professionals into immediate action items you and your team can implement.
Learn from world-class software professionals
Deep-dive into software topics with extraordinary speakers.
Hear their valuable insights and advice to help you with your learning journey.

Richard Seroter
Director of Outbound Product Management @GoogleCloud
Michelle Brush
Engineering Manager, SWE-SRE @Google
Kolton Andrus
Co-Founder & CEO @GremlinIncInfoQ
Roundtables
Join a live panel discussion between software professionals (and ask your own questions) to accelerate your learning and become better informed.
Multi-cloud Microservices: Separating Fact from Fiction
Implementing an architecture across multi-cloud promises removing vendor lockin and the ability to shift load during cloud provider specific outages, but is it real? Is a multi-cloud architecture truly viable? Join an InfoQ panel discussion with several leaders in the industry where these topics are discussed and patterns in use today are explained.
Embracing Production: Make Yourself At Home
Being on-call can be intimidating, whether it's your first time carrying a pager or you’re new to the system. Operating distributed systems in production actually makes developers more effective at delivering features: it creates feedback loops by giving essential insights into the interactions of dependencies with your system. Join the roundtable to learn from industry leaders and fellow practitioners about how they embrace production. We’ll also discuss ways to make it easier for others to onboard and keep the system up and running.
Sponsors
Learn more about the organizations that joined us on this journey

Honeycomb is a powerful observability tool that helps you debug your entire production app stack and deeply understand your complex distributed systems.

Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform / APM Solution discovers, maps and monitors services and infrastructure in real-time, ingesting observability metrics, traces and events automatically.
Charities we are supporting

100% of net ticket revenue* is being donated to organizations working towards diversity, equity, and inclusion in the technology industry.
*Net ticket revenue is defined as the collected ticket price minus applicable taxes, credit card fees, and processing fees.
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