Conferences & Talks

https://sessionize.com/diana-todea/

Cloud Native and Open Source events

1. Speaker at Cloud Native Valencia, Valencia, November 2025: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-valencia-presents-cloud-native-valencia-3-year-end-lightning-talks-ctencf-party/

2. Speaker at Cloud Native LATAM Summit Virtual, November 2025: https://cloud-native-latam-summit.sessionize.com/session/1046922, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoyGwC7i-SI

3. Speaker at Cloud Native Sustainability Month, Barcelona Edition, November 2025: https://www.meetup.com/cloud-native-bcn/events/311460252/

4. Speaker at OSMC, Nuremberg, Germany, November 2025: https://osmc.de/talks/from-zero-to-developer-my-one-year-serendipity-journey-with-opentelemetry/

5. Speaker at Cloud Native Bergen, October 2025: https://2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/speaker/diana-todea, https://youtu.be/eVDBqKcDXpU

6. Speaker at PromCON EU, October 2025: https://www.youtube.com/live/SzSUa5y7Ji0?si=maeQvwqIqxNilch_

7. Speaker at Cloud Native Days Austria, October 2025: https://cloudnativedays.at/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrxpEE5GpY

8. Speaker at Cloud Native Kuala Lumpur, September 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEl83PLUook

9. Speaker at Cloud Native Santo Domingo, Virtual, July 2025: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-santo-domingo-presents-from-zero-to-developer-my-one-year-serendipity-journey-with-opentelemetry/, https://youtu.be/NEt5tPLwryw?si=VEC_eT_u61Hv5bZj

10. Speaker at OTel Community Day 2025, Denver, US, June 2025: "From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWON2NT41lE

11. Speaker at Cloud Native Days Romania, May 2025: "From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry", https://youtu.be/K61o4Z1gTxw?si=1RKPbFFAHaOyHKTC

12. Speaker at KCD Accra, Ghana, virtual, December 2024: " Open source observability for private clouds: mission impossible or not?", https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-ghana-presents-kcd-accra-2024/

13. Speaker at the Open Source Monitoring Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, 2024: "Open source observability for private clouds: mission impossible or not?", https://osmc.de/talks/open-source-observability-for-private-cloud-mission-impossible-or-not/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi1_aCHoxu0

DevOps and Platform Engineering events

14. SREDay Amsterdam, November 2025: https://sreday.com/2025-amsterdam-q4/Diana_Todea_VictoriaMetrics_Cutting_Through_Metrics_Cardinality_Noise_with_VictoriaMetrics, https://youtu.be/pvY5QcYShyc?si=vTwhB7ek_CL79a8B

15. SREDay London, September 2025: https://sreday.com/2025-london-q3/Diana_Todea_VictoriaMetrics_Cutting_Through_Metrics_Cardinality_Noise_with_VictoriaMetrics

16. Speaker at DevBCN, Barcelona, Spain, July 2025: "From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry", https://www.devbcn.com/talk/829657. This talk wasn't recorded but I gave an Youtube interview in Spanish shortly after on CodelyTV: https://www.youtube.com/live/LGmHZXm_QK4?si=94oYLAvBBRkyki9H

17. Speaker at DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2025: "From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry", https://youtu.be/52PkHEbXIaA?si=zh_OvQoYGCx9L_wH

18. Speaker at Platmosphere Chapter 2025, Unleash the Invisible, May 2025, Milan, Italy: https://platmosphere.com/talks/generative-ai

19. Speaker at GlobalAIBootcamp Valencia 2025, March 2025: https://global-ai-bootcamp-valencia-2025.sessionize.com/speakers

20. Speaker at DevOps Barcelona Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2024: https://devops.barcelona/talk/0d590d1b-a322-46c8-8ce0-6a120f6763e2/questions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zbbUtLX7j0

21. Speaker at Platform Engineers Meetup, Virtual, August 2024: https://platformengineering.org/events/genai-for-observability-in-the-serverless-world, https://www.youtube.com/live/V7TcB9WgqB0

22. Speaker at DevBCN, Barcelona, Spain, June 2024: https://www.devbcn.com/speaker/f22272a3-c974-4261-9846-8ae441a9d4e5

23. Speaker at Monitorama, Portland, US, June 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pazo-e8jcks, https://monitorama.com/2024/pdx.html#speakers

24. Speaker at DevOpsDays Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2024: https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-geneva/speakers/virginia-diana-todea/

25. Speaker at JOTB 2024 conference, Malaga, Spain, May 2024: https://youtu.be/lhgMlizvMF0?feature=shared

26. Speaker at WomenTech Global Conference 2024, April 2024: https://www.womentech.net/speaker/all/all/98668, https://www.womentech.net/en-es/video/generativeai-applications-in-serverless-world

27. Speaker at Platform Engineers Meetup, Virtual, April 2024: https://platformengineering.org/events/serverless-observability-where-slos-meet-transforms, https://www.youtube.com/live/KsvhCyIrrAk?si=s0KRcHzv3DEpGvo4

28. Keynote speaker at DevOpsDays Raleigh 2024, Raleigh, North Carolina, US, April 2024: https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-raleigh/program/virginia-diana-todea-keynote, https://youtu.be/WcD5kA0fK3o?si=Jwj-yLVZY7cPVgxE

29. Speaker at Serverless Architecture & DevOpsCon Conference London 2024, April 2024: https://serverless-architecture.io/serverless-development/generative-ai-serverless/

30. Speaker at DevOpsJS Conference, February 2024: https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/serverless-observability-where-slos-meet-transforms

31. Speaker at WeAreDevelopersLive DevOps Day Conference February 2024: https://www.wearedevelopers.com/event/DevOps-Day-February-2024 and https://youtube.com/watch?v=XO1FqCCgvfE

32. Speaker at SREday September 2023, London, UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnhlCuXl_3k

Cloud native and Open Source articles

1. My first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon: A journey through community, inclusivity, and neurodiversity, "https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/12/04/my-first-kubecon-cloudnativecon-a-journey-through-community-inclusivity-and-neurodiversity/
2. "How I Made the Most of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Atlanta 2025 and How You Can Maximize Your Network Too" https://medium.com/@dianatodea/how-i-made-the-most-of-kubecon-cloudnativecon-atlanta-2025-and-how-you-can- maximize-your-network-e9a79dd98169
3. "Observability Is a Mesh, Not a Braid", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/observability-is-a-mesh-not-a-braid-c3ac3ca9a305
4. "Merge-Forward: Elevating Equity in Cloud Native", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/merge-forward-elevating-equity-in-cloud-native-8df9a3538c7e
5. "How OTel community day enriched my OSS career", https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/08/13/how-otel-community-day-enriched-my-open-source-career-a-tale-of-community-and-connection/
6. "OTel me more on Traces: introducing VictoriaMetrics' Trace Analyzer", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/otel-me-more-on-traces-introducing-victoriametrics-trace-analyzer-3db76d8a2bb2
7. "Cloud Native Days Romania: tales from the field", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/cloud-native-days-romania-2025-tales-from-the-field-2d41c75f69df
8. "I played with OTEL and I liked it", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/i-played-with-otel-and-i-liked-it-a69af868568b
9. "Document writing: a great way to contribute to Open Source projects", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/document-writing-a-great-way-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects-5fee57699efd
10. "Why feedback matters for open source projects": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/why-feedback-matters-for-open-source-a3a26d5a3069

SRE, GenerativeAI

11. "Can you make your calls and SMS observable? An Aircall Elastic integration story", https://medium.com/@dianatodea/send-aircall-data-into-elastic-a-webhook-integration-story-3753501a9d29
12. "GenerativeAI and Observability in the Serverless World", "Part 3: How Machine Learning and DevOps are Transforming IT Operations Going Beyond RAG and Fine-Tuning", https://devm.io/devops/beyond-rag-fine-tuning-machine-learning-devops
13. "GenerativeAI and Observability in the Serverless World", "Part 2: Introduction to Generative AI and Transformer Architecture Transformer and Generative AI Concepts", https://devm.io/machine-learning/generative-ai-transformer-architecture
14. "GenerativeAI and Observability in the Serverless World", "Part 1: How Machine Learning and DevOps are Transforming IT Operations": https://devm.io/devops/generativeai-observability-serverless
15. "10 lessons on how to become an excellent SRE": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/10-lessons-on-how-to-become-an-excellent-sre-5b002af50ba3
16. Elastic Advent Calendar blog article about Serverless Observability and beats alerts (English, Spanish and Romanian): https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dec-3rd-2023-en-serverless-observability-how-beats-alerts-help-you-save-christmas/347284
17. Elastic Advent Calendar blog article about Good and Bad SLOs (English, Spanish and Romanian): https://discuss.elastic.co/t/347304

Public speaking, DevRel, community articles

18. "Tech conferences, anyone? 2024 year wrap": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/tech-conferences-anyone-2024-year-wrap-395d0c36c40c
19. "SRE or DevRel?": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/sre-or-devrel-a019bb7cff9b
20. "Breaking into public speaking: my honest opinions after a two-year journey": https://medium.com/@dianatodea/breaking-into-devrel-my-honest-opinions-after-a-2-years-journey-495a516c3ffe

Books reviews

15. O'Reilly book review on Observability: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/book-review-fundamentals-data-observability-andy-petrella-diana-todea%3FtrackingId=Ka%252Fz%252Bsa3TMqe1IORKJxiIQ%253D%253D/?trackingId=Ka%2Fz%2Bsa3TMqe1IORKJxiIQ%3D%3D
16. O'Reilly book review on ChatGPT: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/book-review-developing-apps-gpt4-chatgpt-diana-todea-ns45f%3FtrackingId=vfdCfM3ZS4%252B2Bs%252FM7x5vYQ%253D%253D/?trackingId=vfdCfM3ZS4%2B2Bs%2FM7x5vYQ%3D%3D

Interviews and podcasts

1. Humans of OTel: Live from KubeCon NA 2025 with Jacob Aronoff and Diana Todea, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbDui8hDdo
2. eAfterWork EP 10: "Observabilité illimitée + OpenTelemetry sur une stack open source avec DIANA TODEA", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9t3aLkR6js
3. Diana Todea on Why Developer Experience Is Replacing DevRel - Packet Pushers at KubeCon NA 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvtYkrrEWsY
4. Merge-Forward at KubeCon NA 2025: https://www.thecube.net/events/linux-foundation/kubecon-cloudnativecon-na-2025/content/Videos/eda66ede-e815-41b6-85b6-764fb528a3e1
5. Representation takes center stage as Merge Forward amplifies underrepresented voices in open-source communities, https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/13/accessibility-meets-open-source-collaboration-kubeconna/
6. How I Went from Stage Fear to Speaking at Tech Conferences, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvlu8rL8UO8
7. AWS blog post on my certificate path: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/diana-todea-lifelong-learner-with-a-philosophy-of-flexibility
8. YouTube video presenting an interview I gave for AWS: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SoQahKnKG0w