2024-01-22
OTel lessons learned
In OpenTelemetry - Simplifying Observability Magnus Holmstrom from TomTom engineering shares their lessons learned from a Proof of Concept with OpenTelemetry. The article covers both the technical as well as the human/team perspective. Thanks a lot for this and I'd love to see more of this kind of reporting!
Outreachy
Outreachy - How, When & Why? by Sakshi Patle, a final-year Computer Science and Engineering student, is a short piece on their internship with the OTel SIG Security. Welcome aboard and hope a bunch more will consider the Outreachy program.
On cardinality
Devrim Demiroz strikes again, this time he wrote Cardinality of Observability Cardinality Management Configurations, contemplating the topic including some really interesting "further reading" material. Thank you!
Testing front-ends
Cloud Native Observability and Cypress: An Unlikely Marriage by Ken Hamric shows how to do trace-based testing with Cypress, a tool for testing front-end apps.
Kubernetes troubleshooting
Maria of Kubeshop wrote 5 Essential K8s Troubleshooting + Monitoring Tasks, showing Botkube, a collaborative Kubernetes troubleshooting and monitoring tool, in action.
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