2025-06-30
Applying OpenTelemetry
Two video resources I can recommend, no matter if you're new to OTel or already have some experience:
- From the SREday Amsterdam 2025, learn from Devrim Demiroz about Charting AlphaEvolve → OTel Journey.
- In Scaling Observability with OpenTelemetry: A Technical Overview Whitney Lee and Austin Parker provide useful context.
Flame charts
Flame Charts: The Time-Aware Sibling of Flame Graphs by Manoj Vivek is a super exciting read on an inovation in the performance profiling space. Kudos and congrats to the awesome Polar Signals team!
AI-SRE
The one and only Andrew Mallaband continues his series, check out The AI-SRE Frontier: From Hype to Practical Application with rich context on industry developments and market maturity.
Optimizing queries in AMP
My colleagues Rodrigue Koffi, Ganesh Sambandan, Jay Joshi, and Vinod Kisanagaram published Optimizing Queries with Amazon Managed Prometheus, covering a number of features we launched recently in a hands-on, deep-dive manner. Thanks!
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