Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Everett Sinclair, Network Administrator at Conway Corporation, explains why Kentik became their “one pane of glass” for cloud-based network visibility, rapid troubleshooting, and smarter peering and caching decisions. With Kentik’s SaaS network intelligence platform, Conway gets updates automatically, avoids server rebuilds, and can deploy cloud agents remotely to run simple metric tests close to customer locations.

Sorin Esanu, Director of Network Engineering at Race Communications, explains why deep, always-on network intelligence is essential when you have massive volumes of traffic moving in and out from many sources. After outgrowing an on-prem tool that required ongoing maintenance and didn’t deliver the analytics they needed, Race chose Kentik for richer visibility, daily traffic optimization, and improved security.

Security that developers never have to think about. That's the goal Audrey Long, Senior Gaming Cloud Security Architect at Microsoft Gaming Security, set out to achieve, and then actually built. In this GitKon session, Audrey walks through how Microsoft Gaming tackled a massive identity security challenge across double-digit Entra ID tenants spanning independent game studios. With no existing tooling that fit the pace of game development, her team built the Entra ID Tenant Security Scanner from scratch using the Maester Framework, custom PowerShell, and GitHub Actions.

Most teams aren't full of A-players because most leaders are playing the wrong game. They're chasing expensive talent with perfect resumes instead of identifying people who can be A-players in their specific context. The best leaders know how to spot undervalued talent, develop them systematically, and create environments where top performers choose to stay. This session shows you how to build your own talent factory instead of competing for the same overpriced candidates as everyone else.