2025-09-08
OTLP 101
Ayooluwa Isaiah of Dash0 is on a roll! Read What Is OTLP and Why It's the Future of Observability, an excellent mixture of theory and hands-on material. Thank you!
OTel for legacy apps
Via the OpenTelemetry blog: Your Critical Legacy App is a Black Box? Let's Change That in 5 Minutes! by Lukasz Ciukaj is a great article for practitioners.
Can there be too much data?
The Signal in the Storm: Why Chasing More Data Misses the Point by Endre Sara, via the CNCF blog, including references to slide deck and video.
Intelligent ops
The magnificent Andrew Mallaband wrote From Observability to Closed-Loop Orchestration: Scaffolding the Future of Intelligent Operations, recommend to peruse.
OpenSearch book
I have a book recommendation for you: The Definitive Guide to OpenSearch by Jon Handler, Soujanya Konka, and Prashant Agrawal.
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