The concept of Trace-based testing (TBT) was first presented by my awesome colleague, Ted Young, at KubeCon North America 2018. …

Ever since I started exploring Nomad, one of the things that I’ve enjoyed doing is taking Docker Compose files and Kubernetes manifests, and translating them into HashiCorp Nomad jobspec. …

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…