Portfolio
![Michael Friedrich, wearing a GitLab shirt, before his KubeCon EU 2022 talk](/content/images/size/w2000/2022/06/michael_friedrich_2022_kubeconeu-1.jpeg)
You can follow me on LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon to learn more about my activities.
Speaking & Talks
See my talks. My speaker bio/pictures can be found in this document.
Activities
- GitLab Duo Coffee Chat - live learning series with AI-powered workflows.
- My Ops in Dev newsletter on opsindev.news learning AI/ML, Observability, eBPF. — paused in 2024, too much workload.
- Co-founder of the #EveryoneCanContribute cafe meetup group to learn Cloud-Native and DevSecOps, including social activities & making new friends. — inactive, occasionally in person.
Media & Interviews
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Certificates
Blog
See my blog.
GitLab blog posts
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Publications
- 2024: "How to get started using AI in software development" - ebook published by GitLab
- 2023: "Observability-Praxis im CI/CD-Prozess" - German article in heise iX Developer special: "Cloud Native"
- 2023: "Debugging in Produktion: Chaos Engineering mit eBPF" - German article in heise iX Developer special: "Cloud Native"
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- 2022: "Log-Management platforms overview" - German article in heise iX 09/22
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- 2021: "From First Code to Cloud Native Deployment: A Learning Journey"
- 2020: "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know" book - Article contributions. Released Jan 2021 by O'Reilly.
- 2019: Quo vadis, DevOps? GitLab CI und CD installieren und konfigurieren - article in heise iX 04/19
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- 2018: Small Things Monitoring - article in heise iX 04/18
- 2014: Systemüberwachung mit Icinga 2 - article in heise iX open source special 2014
Reviews
- 2022: State of Observability 2022 report by Splunk (German)
- 2022: Hacking Kubernetes book by Andrew Martin, Michael Hausenblas, O'Reilly for Heise.de
- 2018: Icinga 2 - Practical Monitoring (German) incl. a chapter contribution
- 2013: Nagios/Icinga cookbook (German)
Workshops
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Projects at GitLab
My daily work involves contributing to Open Source, creating helpful resources and explore new ways to learn together - everything documented in our handbook.
Opstrace
I was involved in the acquisition process as the community DRI (directly responsible individual) and am contributing to community activities and product features and use cases.
In April, @sebp & @matappelman joined the 25. #EveryoneCanContribute cafe to show @opstrace 💡
— Michael Friedrich, #o11ylove 🌈 (@dnsmichi) December 14, 2021
Today, @opstrace is joining @gitlab 🦊 #Community 🌱 highlight for the books. @solidnerd @tonka_2000 @philip_welz @nmeisenzahl https://t.co/OLmYGCeb6o #observability #devops pic.twitter.com/Tz9aEYs88L
CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry is one of the focus areas in 2022.
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Docker Hub Limit Monitoring
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Go Excusegen
Modify the message for Xkcd 303. I've forked the project and enriched it with GitLab CI/CD builds.