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What is OpenTelemetry?

I’ve been deep in the domain of observability over the past year. I thought I should take a step back and try to explain some concepts of a project I’ve been working on, OpenTelemetry.

Observability

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What is OpenTelemetry?
What is OpenTelemetry?
Observability

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Jun 20, 2022

Understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector

The following is an excerpt of Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry So, now that we’ve learned how to use OpenTelemetry to generate traces, metrics, and logs, we want to do something with all this telemetry data. To make the most of this data, we will need to be able to…

Opentelemetry

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Understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector
Understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector
Opentelemetry

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May 26, 2020

Disabling go modules in Visual Studio Code

I couldn’t find a good answer to this question and I looked for hours. Ultimately, I decided to document it here for the next time I need it and for anyone else out there who’s looking to disable go modules in in Visual Studio Code. Open up Settings (⌘,) and search for “go tools env vars”

Vscode

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Disabling go modules in Visual Studio Code
Disabling go modules in Visual Studio Code
Vscode

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·May 12, 2020

Python Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry

We’ve all been there. You want to get started with distributed tracing, but don’t have the time to revisit the codebase of dozens, if not hundreds of dozens of services in your system. Don’t worry, OpenTelemetry’s got you covered. …

Observability

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Python Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry
Python Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry
Observability

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Apr 24, 2020

Setting up BPF Experiments on MacOS

Preface: This is not an article defining what the Berkeley Packet Filter(BPF) is. The internet is full of resources on the topic and I’m definitely not an expert on it. Check out this talk by Brendan Gregg if you’d like to know more. One of the biggest pains in the…

Bpf

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Setting up BPF Experiments on MacOS
Setting up BPF Experiments on MacOS
Bpf

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Oct 1, 2019

Tests, delivery and other important things in software development

There’s a scene from the Simpson episode “Lisa the Simpson” where Lisa appears on a television broadcast to make an appeal to the audience. She urges citizens to use and treasure their brain, in fear that she was about to lose her own due to the “Simpson gene”. As I…

Continuous Integration

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Tests, delivery and other important things in software development
Tests, delivery and other important things in software development
Continuous Integration

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Jun 10, 2019

Stop saying this sh*t in the office

Here comes a rant. There’s a handful of words I hear people using repeatedly that make my skin crawl. Say for example I’m sitting in a meeting, coffeeshop, or at a conference. The speaker will say “check out this sexy code I just wrote” and immediately my train of thought…

Feminism

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Stop saying this sh*t in the office
Stop saying this sh*t in the office
Feminism

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Mar 30, 2019

Redis-tributed: distributed tracing through Redis

Distributed applications come in all shapes and sizes. In many cases, an Application Programming Interface (API) talks to another one and distributed tracing through Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) headers works just great. But what about other cases? Can distributed tracing work for event driven architecture? …

Redis

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Redis-tributed: Distributed Tracing through Redis
Redis-tributed: Distributed Tracing through Redis
Redis

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Feb 25, 2019

Baloney detection kit in software development

One of the challenges in software development is to remain focused on delivering value to users. Interruptions and outages cause a lot of noise and distract engineers from planned work. Sometimes a bug escapes into production. Others, systems are on fire because of unexpected surge in traffic (at the risk…

Agile

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Baloney detection kit in software development
Baloney detection kit in software development
Agile

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Feb 1, 2019

Falling deep down a networking rabbit hole, one hop at a time

I ran into an interesting networking problem last week while configuring a multi-host Vagrant environment. I couldn’t find a lot of information about it anywhere so I thought, why not share it? Maybe it will save time for the next poor soul who tries to get VirtualBox virtual machines talking…

Networking

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Falling deep down a networking rabbit hole, one hop at a time
Falling deep down a networking rabbit hole, one hop at a time
Networking

6 min read

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