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…

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”

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. …

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…

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…