The observability industry was built on a simple trade: ship your telemetry to a vendor and get insights back. That bargain made sense when data was small and cheap. It is not anymore. Josh Lee, Open Source Advocate at Altinity, argues that OpenTelemetry solved instrumentation and portability, but observability cannot be truly open until the storage layer is open, standardized, and hostable anywhere.

AI is everywhere: our posts, our videos, our code. Companies expect us to embrace it, but the cost to creativity and mental health is rarely discussed. In this keynote at Cloud Native Days Poland 2026, Josh Lee of Altinity and Adriana Villela of Dynatrace look at how the AI boom reshaped tech, and how to lean on AI to produce meaningful, non-slop work.

Josh Lee, Open Source Developer Advocate at Altinity, takes the stage twice at Cloud Native Denmark 2026 in Copenhagen. In the keynote Whose Code is it Anyways?, he joins Adriana Villela, Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace, to make the case for bidirectional empathy in open source, from guardrails on AI-assisted pull requests to making sure junior developers still get room to grow. In Beyond the Data Swamp, he joins Graziano Casto to show how ClickHouse® and custom semantic layers turn raw, expensive telemetry into a source of truth that names the root cause in seconds. Both talks land on Thursday, November 19.