Modern software development has become increasingly complex due to distributed architectures, containerization, Kubernetes, and high uptime demands.
The discovery of monitoring and observability often leads to decision paralysis from a massive number of available tools, creating a "tool tax."
OpenTelemetry originated from the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus under the CNCF to create a unified, vendor-neutral standard for instrumentation.
Telemetry data flows from your application through the OTel API and language-specific SDK to a collector, which receives, processes, and exports the data.
A trace represents a single end-to-end request composed of spans, while a metric provides aggregated data over a period of time.
OpenTelemetry gives you ownership of your data, allowing you to build a custom backend or easily export to any vendor using a simple configuration file.
OpenTelemetry reduces tool proliferation and cognitive load by providing a single, stable dependency, freeing teams to focus on shipping performant code.
53:57Nočnica Mellifera
32:55Natale Vinto
46:37Chris Riley
32:47Gabriel Labachelerie
37:24Tejas Chopra
40:00Rob Richardson
43:00Luka Kladaric
31:48Jan Steffen
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Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
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