Category: Talks

GET /Ready #1 – Getting your company’s support to speak in public

WomenInAPIs GET /Ready is a new series of short, focused coaching-circle sessions designed to help people take quick, practical steps toward speaking in public. Each 45-minute session tackles a specific challenge. This ranges from building confidence to preparing content to navigating workplace support. Join the launch of our new GET

Supercharging Grafana with Community Plugins

This talk was presented at the Grafana & Friends Barcelona meetup, a joint meetup with the Barcelona Apache Kafka community. Grafana is powerful on its own, but its true potential lies in its vibrant community of plugin developers. In this talk, we’ll explore how community plugins extend Grafana’s core functionality, enabling

TechFems Presentation at Factorial

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/A8iRMDIoCP30jy?hostedIn=slideshare&page=upload TechFems.org is closing the year with an event at Factorial. RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/techfems/events/311976415. Are you an aspiring women+ software engineer ready to kickstart your tech career? 🚀 Join us for an inspiring evening to discover FEMgineers — the Factorial 6-month paid internship program designed to empower and train the next generation of female Fullstack Engineers. 📅

Cloud Infrastructure monitoring with Grafana Cloud

Recording: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring-with-grafana-cloud/ Streamline Cloud Observability, No Data Consolidation Required In this webinar, we will explore key concepts and practical strategies for effectively observing your cloud services. From understanding different cloud service models to implementing OpenTelemetry for consistent observability, we’ll cover a range of topics. Whether you’re managing workloads on AWS,

Señoras que a veces … hablan de achaques

Charla con las buenas amigas Almudena Vivanco y Ana Carmona en el podcast de Almudena charlando de nuestros achaques. El podcast está disponible en Spotify aquí, y en YouTube aquí.

Metrics, logs, traces, and mayhem: introducing an observability adventure game powered by Grafana Alloy and OTel

Workshop based on the blog post “Metrics, logs, traces, and mayhem: introducing an observability adventure game powered by Grafana Alloy and OTel“, at Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025: https://2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/speaker/imma-valls Workshop Instructions at https://github.com/grafana/adventure/blob/main/workshop.md This hands-on workshop transforms learning about observability into an engaging adventure! Step into a text-based game where you’ll master essential observability tools—metrics,

Performance testing and observability in Grafana Cloud

Recording: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/k6-performance-testing-and-observability-in-grafana-cloud-emea/ In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring a smooth and reliable end-user experience is critical. Join us to explore how Grafana’s suite of observability tools—Grafana Cloud k6, Frontend Observability, and Synthetic Monitoring—helps engineering teams test, monitor, and optimize user journeys across the software lifecycle. Best of all, you’ll learn

The 50+ First-Timer: My OpenTelemetry Contribution and How Your CNCF Journey Can Also Start Today

This talk was presented at KCD Edinburgh 2025: https://sessionize.com/view/yz0a7tia/GridSmart?format=Embed_Styled_Html&isDark=false&title=KCD%20UK%20Edinburgh%202025 Thinking about contributing to a CNCF project? Does it seem daunting, or perhaps you feel it’s too late to start at this stage in your career? You might be surprised to learn that it’s more accessible than you think! In this

GET /Ready #1 – Getting your company’s support to speak in public

WomenInAPIs GET /Ready is a new series of short, focused coaching-circle sessions designed to help people take quick, practical steps toward speaking in public. Each 45-minute session tackles a specific challenge. This ranges from building confidence to preparing content to navigating workplace support. Join the launch of our new GET

Supercharging Grafana with Community Plugins

This talk was presented at the Grafana & Friends Barcelona meetup, a joint meetup with the Barcelona Apache Kafka community. Grafana is powerful on its own, but its true potential lies in its vibrant community of plugin developers. In this talk, we’ll explore how community plugins extend Grafana’s core functionality, enabling

TechFems Presentation at Factorial

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/A8iRMDIoCP30jy?hostedIn=slideshare&page=upload TechFems.org is closing the year with an event at Factorial. RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/techfems/events/311976415. Are you an aspiring women+ software engineer ready to kickstart your tech career? 🚀 Join us for an inspiring evening to discover FEMgineers — the Factorial 6-month paid internship program designed to empower and train the next generation of female Fullstack Engineers. 📅

Cloud Infrastructure monitoring with Grafana Cloud

Recording: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring-with-grafana-cloud/ Streamline Cloud Observability, No Data Consolidation Required In this webinar, we will explore key concepts and practical strategies for effectively observing your cloud services. From understanding different cloud service models to implementing OpenTelemetry for consistent observability, we’ll cover a range of topics. Whether you’re managing workloads on AWS,

Señoras que a veces … hablan de achaques

Charla con las buenas amigas Almudena Vivanco y Ana Carmona en el podcast de Almudena charlando de nuestros achaques. El podcast está disponible en Spotify aquí, y en YouTube aquí.

Metrics, logs, traces, and mayhem: introducing an observability adventure game powered by Grafana Alloy and OTel

Workshop based on the blog post “Metrics, logs, traces, and mayhem: introducing an observability adventure game powered by Grafana Alloy and OTel“, at Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025: https://2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/speaker/imma-valls Workshop Instructions at https://github.com/grafana/adventure/blob/main/workshop.md This hands-on workshop transforms learning about observability into an engaging adventure! Step into a text-based game where you’ll master essential observability tools—metrics,

Performance testing and observability in Grafana Cloud

Recording: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/k6-performance-testing-and-observability-in-grafana-cloud-emea/ In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring a smooth and reliable end-user experience is critical. Join us to explore how Grafana’s suite of observability tools—Grafana Cloud k6, Frontend Observability, and Synthetic Monitoring—helps engineering teams test, monitor, and optimize user journeys across the software lifecycle. Best of all, you’ll learn

The 50+ First-Timer: My OpenTelemetry Contribution and How Your CNCF Journey Can Also Start Today

This talk was presented at KCD Edinburgh 2025: https://sessionize.com/view/yz0a7tia/GridSmart?format=Embed_Styled_Html&isDark=false&title=KCD%20UK%20Edinburgh%202025 Thinking about contributing to a CNCF project? Does it seem daunting, or perhaps you feel it’s too late to start at this stage in your career? You might be surprised to learn that it’s more accessible than you think! In this