
Observability Practice Lead at Percona
Long time Linux and Open Source consultant, one of the instigators of the DevOps movement
Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source consultant, and a DevOps and Open Source expert and engineering leader. He is one of the instigators of the DevOps movement.
He spends most of his time bridging the gap between developers and operations, with a strong focus on high availability, scalability, virtualisation and large infrastructure management projects, building infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud.
He started more than one conference series and lost count of how many times he has spoken at other events, and has written about these subjects in books, papers and articles. He has not blogged for a while, but people still point out the title of his blog: “Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem”.
10 Sep 2026
Lessons from 10 years of Platform Engineering
DevopsCon Munich · Munich, DE
2 Dec 2025
Bow for me for I am Coroot
NLUUG Najaars Conference · Utrecht, NL
20 Nov 2025
Lessons from 10 years of Platform Engineering
Devopsdays Tokyo · Tokyo, JP
15 Apr 2025
2024
Observability will not fix your broken Monitoring
Øredev · Malmö, SE
6 Nov 2024
Observability will not fix your Broken monitoring (ignite version)
Devopsdays Berlin · Berlin, DE
21 Sep 2022