Speaker: Adam Hicks
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Senior Solutions Architect @Groundcover
Adam Hicks is a Senior Solutions Architect at Groundcover, specializing in bringing observability and AI workloads under a single, easy-to-operate platform. Before joining groundcover, Adam led Trace3’s platform engineering efforts where he owned observability as a central discipline. Earlier in his career, he helped scale observability at Honeycomb.io as a Senior Solutions Architect. Adam’s sweet spot is helping teams see into systems they once viewed as opaque, especially as AI becomes a first-class component of their infrastructure.
Session
Notes From 300 Installs Inside Someone Else's Cloud
We run our storage and query backend inside our customers' own VPCs. They own the infrastructure. We own the pager. I'm the person who helps installs it, so I've watched this architecture meet a few hundred different production Kubernetes environments and I've kept notes on what went wrong.