Michal Bojko

Head of Engineering

Lufthansa Systems

Poland

About

Michal has 15 years of experience in software engineering leadership roles and more than 10 years in technical IT roles.He has built and scaled engineering organizations across Europe, working with teams in the USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Estonia, and Poland.He teaches Data Engineering and Digital Transformation at the university level across Engineering and MBA programmes. His courses combine theory with hands-on simulations, interactive tasks, and instructor-assisted exercises.Michal runs two tech communities:Observability Tech Community: focused on platform engineering, monitoring, and modern software reliability.Critical Thinkers Academy: bringing together practitioners who apply critical thinking to technology and organizational challenges.
Talk

Michal Bojko | Observability foundations – how to read the observability tools data

SRE, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Observability

Modern systems do not fail politely; they drift slowly toward a threshold, they spike without warning, they hide two different behaviors behind a single reassuring average, and they bury three real root causes underneath forty-seven simultaneous alerts. The observability engineer is the person who reads that mess and turns it into a decision, and this presentation exists to provide the foundations for doing so.

As a result, attendees will be able to see a problem while it is still forming rather than after it has become an incident, because they will have the tools to find a latency peak early, forecast the moment a metric crosses its limit, and collapse an alert storm into a short and actionable list.

That is the whole value in one sentence: an average tells attendees that a system is fine, and this presentation gives them the necessary tools to see the moment it stops being fine, and to see it first.

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