Y’all…I’m so excited, because I finally got to work on an item on my tech bucket list. Last week, I began the process of translating OpenTelemetry (OTel) Demo App’s Helm Charts to HashiCorp Nomad job specs. …

If you follow my writings on HashiQube, you know that I am a HUGE fan of it. For the uninitiated, HashiQube provisions a full-on HashiCorp stack including but not limited to Nomad, Vault, and Consul, using Vagrant. It’s been a few months since I last touched HashiQube 😭, and during…

In my last blog post last blog post , I talked about how Ana Margarita Medina Ana Margarita Medina and I used to show off Observability-Landscape-as-Code Observability-Landscape-as-Code in practice, leveraging the OpenTelemetry Demo App OpenTelemetry Demo App to do so. The Demo App showcases instrumentation of and of different services…

with Ana Margarita Medina If you follow Adriana’s writings on Observability Adriana’s writings on Observability , you may recall a post from back in June introducing the concept of Observability-Landscape-as-Code (OLaC) Observability-Landscape-as-Code (OLaC) . An Observability Landscape is made up of the following pieces: Application instrumentation Collecting and storing application…

with Ana Margarita Medina Hello fellow Kubernetes nerds! 🤓 KubeCon North America is now behind us, so it’s time for a conference retrospective! Now, y’all must be thinking, “Awww, not another one! Noooo…” Ah, but ’tis not just any KubeCon wrap-up, because both Ana and I will be sharing our…

If you’re new to OpenTelemetry and want to see it in action in a real-life example, the OpenTelemetry Demo app is a great way to get started quickly. In one of my previous blog posts, I showed you how to get the demo app up and running and sending Traces…

Have you ever been at a place that claimed to be all in on Observability, only for you to realize that well, they’re not really following Observability practices? Yeah. Me neither. Just kidding. I’ve been in this space long enough to witness my fair share of anti-patterns, or what I…

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. …

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…