Observability & Ops:DevOps for Integration Engineers

Join us for a practitioner day dedicated to exploring how distributed systems maintain their resilience! 🚀 This event focuses on

• Golden signals
• Tracing
• Automation
• The op mindset essential for robust integrations

Integration systems can fail in subtle ways—like silent queue fills or degrading API performance. The engineers who manage to catch these issues ahead of time are those who’ve established solid observability practices paired with automation.

This day is ideal for developers, platform engineers, and technical ops professionals involved with APIs, message brokers, middleware, and distributed systems. We’ll delve into the intricacies of observability, accident automation, and the DevOps culture that ensures seamless integration at scale.

Organized by: Nairobi GitHub Campus Expert community. Open to all skill levels, from those starting with CI/CD pipelines to experienced platform engineers managing production systems.

🗓 Agenda

• 09:00 Registration & Networking

  • Grab coffee ☕ and meet the community!

• 09:30 Opening: Why Integrations Fail & How to See It Coming

  • An overview of observability challenges in integration-heavy systems.

• 10:15 Golden Signals in Practice: Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation

  • A deep dive into the four golden signals with real-world examples. Live demo with Prometheus + Grafana. 🔧

• 11:15 Hands-on: Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry & Jaeger

  • Work on a sample microservice and learn to diagnose slow integration faults. 💻

• 12:30 Lunch Break 🍽

• 13:30 Scripting Your Way Out of Toil: Automation for Integration Ops

  • Learn practical Python and Bash scripts to minimize manual work.

• 14:15 Hands-on: Building a Partner Connectivity Validator

  • Create a script that checks multiple API endpoints and sends alerts on failures. 🔔

• 15:15 Panel: Ops Culture in African Tech

  • Engineers discuss incident culture and DevOps maturity specific to our context.

• 16:00 Close & Community Networking

  • Final networking opportunities! 🤝