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Kasper Borg Nissen

Kasper Borg Nissen

Developer Advocate at Dash0

About

Kasper is a CNCF Ambassador, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, KCD Organizer, and CNCG Group Organizer. He co-founded Cloud Native Nordics to unite meetups across the region. As a Developer Advocate at Dash0, he helps make observability easy for developers by advocating for better tooling, best practices, and seamless integrations. Bridging observability and platform engineering, he ensures developers stay productive and gain actionable insights exactly when needed.

Presentation

The Paved Path to Observability

Presentation (20 min)BeginnerEnglish

Observability should feel invisible - but never be absent. Yet for many teams, it's a constant source of friction: developers reinvent telemetry pipelines, traces break across services, and platform engineers scramble to maintain consistency.

This talk introduces a better approach: platform-led observability. By embracing open standards like OpenTelemetry and treating observability as a built-in feature, platform engineers can reduce complexity while empowering developers.

We’ll explore the dual observability role platform engineers now play - ensuring insight into infrastructure health and giving developers the tools they need to understand their services. With auto-instrumentation, semantic conventions, and self-service tooling, observability can become a paved path, not a pain point.

Observability & Reliability