Adri Villela – Medium

4 days ago

OpenTelemetry for Python: The Hard Way

In my last blog post, I showed y’all how to instrument Python code with OpenTelemetry (OTel), à la auto-instrumentation. You may also recall from that post that I recommended using the Python auto-instrumentation binary even for non-auto-instrumented libraries, because it abstracts all that pesky OTel config stuff so nicely. …

Python

11 min read

Sep 12

Introducing the On-Call Me Maybe Podcast!

Y’all, I am so excited to announce that Ana Margarita Medina and I just launched the On-Call Me Maybe podcast! This podcast is dedicated to nerding out on all things DevOps, SRE, Observability, On-Call, and everything in between. Want to learn more? Then read on, my friend! Your most awesome hosts Ana and I…

Observability

2 min read

Introducing the On-Call Me Maybe Podcast!

Sep 9

Auto-Instrumentation Is Magic: Using OpenTelemetry Python with Lightstep

In my last OpenTelemetry blog post, I talked about how to send OpenTelemetry (OTel) data to Lightstep using Golang. That’s all well and good if you’re a Golang developer, but what if you use Python? …

Opentelemetry

13 min read

Published in Dev Genius

·Aug 2

OpenTelemetry for Go: Three Ways to Send Data to an OTLP Observability Back-end

In the last couple of weeks, I spent a ton of time looking at different ways to send OpenTelemetry (OTel) data to Lightstep. In case the super-obvious title didn’t tip you off already, there are three different ways to do so: Direct from application OpenTelemetry Collector Launchers (via Collector or…

Opentelemetry

15 min read

Jul 12

Let’s Talk About Psychological Safety

There’s something askew… On the morning of Friday, July 8th, 2022, as I rolled out of bed, I instinctively reached over to my phone to check the weather for the day. Right away, I knew that something was off. My weather app wouldn’t load the weather. I toggled my wifi only to realize…

Observability

11 min read

Jun 13

Observability Mythbusters: How hard is it to get started with OpenTelemetry?

So you’re new to Observability and OpenTelemetry and Lighststep and you want to send traces to Lighstep to get a feel for the flow of things. But you’re not sure how to get started. There’s a LOT to learn and take in, and things can get pretty overwhelming, pretty fast…

O 11 Y

7 min read

Observability Mythbusters: How hard is it to get started with OpenTelemetry?

Jun 6

Observability Mythbusters: Yes, Observability-Landscape-as-Code is a Thing

You might be thinking that this might be yet another overloaded term to add to your Buzzword Bingo lineup. Maybe you’re rolling your eyes at me over Yet Another X-as-Code thing. Or maybe you want to hurl your shoe at your screen in frustration. But aren’t you the teeeeniest bit…

Observability

10 min read

May 12

Observability Mythbusters: Observability is NOT Only for SREs

When we think about Observability, we usually think about it in terms of SREs or developers. After all, it’s a mighty powerful practice for helping troubleshoot applications in production. But what if I told you that Observability can fit into the world of QA? What would you say to that? …

Observability

6 min read

May 3

Observability Mythbusters: Logs and Metrics Aren’t Enough

The other day, I found myself bantering back-and-forth with a reader in one of my Medium articles. It ultimately ended with me saying that we were each looking at this problem differently, and we’ll have to just agree to disagree. I’ll admit that I was a bit frustrated by his…

Observability

8 min read

Apr 22

Dear Senior Devs: It’s Okay if You Don’t Want to be a Manager

An Unconventional Move Last year, I took a really cool job whereby I got to manage two amazing teams: a Platform team running the HashiCorp stack, and an Observability team. It has been a really fun ride, and I was fortunate enough to work with some really amazing engineers who taught me a…

Tech

8 min read

Dear Senior Devs: It’s Okay if You Don’t Want to be a Manager