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Empowering IT Teams: Harnessing Microsoft Teams User Ratings for Enhanced User Experience

In today’s digital landscape, effective communication and collaboration are vital for the success of any organization. Microsoft Teams has emerged as a leading platform for seamless teamwork, enabling teams to connect, share, and work together effortlessly. Ensuring a positive user experience on this platform is crucial for maximizing productivity and fostering a collaborative culture.

Transforming Bank Operations

With the recent advancements in technology and online digital services have transformed the way the banks work. Decades ago, banks used to handle everything on paper and the services opted for were very limited. Services were not unified, and account holders were forced to visit the bank even for small number of deposits or withdrawals or just to raise concerns. Today, technology has penetrated almost every industry and the banking sector is no exception to this undeniable reality.

Splashing into Data Lakes: The Reservoir of Observability

If you’re a systems engineer, SRE, or just someone with a love for tech buzzwords, you’ve likely heard about “data lakes”. Before we dive deep into this concept, let’s debunk the illusion: there aren’t any floaties or actual lakes involved! Instead, imagine a vast reservoir where you store loads and loads of raw data in its natural format. Now, pair this with the idea of observability and telemetry pipelines, and we have ourselves an engaging topic.

Integrating Calico statistics with Prometheus

Metrics are important for a microservices application running on Kubernetes because they provide visibility into the health and performance of the application. This visibility can be used to troubleshoot problems, optimize the application, and ensure that it is meeting its SLAs. Some of the challenges that metrics solve for microservices applications running on Kubernetes include: Calico is the most adopted technology for Kubernetes networking and security.

How Qonto used Grafana Loki to build its network observability platform

Christophe is a self-taught engineer from France who specializes in site reliability engineering. He spends most of his time building systems with open-source technologies. In his free time, Christophe enjoys traveling and discovering new cultures, but he would also settle for a good book by the pool with a lemon sorbet.

Innovating with Faster, Safer Experimentation

Experimentation is the key to innovation. But experiments come with risks, not just of failure, but of wasted time, effort, and money. I’ll share the experimental approach that NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s largest wireless provider, takes to build digital products that customers love. I’ll also present examples from experiments we performed on NTT DOCOMO’s Smart-life website that improved the user experience and significantly increased conversion rates. In this session, you’ll learn how to reduce the risk of experiments and iterate faster to improve your services.

The Darkside of GraphQL

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that provides a powerful and efficient way to query and manipulate data. As powerful and versatile as GraphQL is, its downside is that it can be vulnerable to certain security threats. In this presentation, we will discuss the security vulnerabilities associated with GraphQL, from the basics to more advanced threats, and how to best protect against them. After this presentation, attendees will have a better understanding of security vulnerabilities in GraphQL, as well as an understanding of the steps needed to protect against them.