Engineering
Observability-Driven Development
Shift observability left by designing around structured logs, distributed traces and meaningful metrics from day one — faster debugging, shorter incidents.
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OpenTelemetry
6 articles
Engineering
Distributed Tracing: Following Requests Across Services
Implement distributed tracing across microservices with OpenTelemetry: context propagation, spans, sampling and the analysis that makes systems debuggable.
·5 min read
DevOps
Observability Stack: Metrics, Logs and Traces in Practice
Set up a full observability stack with Prometheus metrics, structured JSON logging and OpenTelemetry tracing, and see how each signal connects to the others.
·4 min read
Engineering
Designing Reliable Distributed Tracing Pipelines
Build production distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry: context propagation, sampling strategies, storage backends, log correlation and cardinality.
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DevOps
OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Node.js
A hands-on guide to instrumenting Node.js with OpenTelemetry: traces, metrics and logs via auto-instrumentation, custom spans, context and exporters.
·4 min read
Engineering
Distributed Tracing: Following Requests Across Services
When a request touches five services, each log is useless alone — distributed tracing ties them together with trace IDs, spans and context propagation.
·3 min read