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Gain agility through observability

Heather Waters | January 19, 2023

As we navigate geopolitical challenges, macroeconomic headwinds, and the post-pandemic comedown, there is pressure to drive transformation, reduce costs, and be more efficient. See how observability can help you rise to the challenge and be more agile.

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Why should OpenTelemetry be your standard for telemetry?

Spoons | Dec 16, 2020

OpenTelemetry provides a cost-effective and scalable way for your platform and infrastructure teams to support the rest of the organization while still enforcing those standards. In this blog, we’ll discuss why OpenTelemetry should be your new standard.

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OpenTelemetry Java: All you need to know

Ted Young | Dec 14, 2020

This walkthrough contains all you need to know to actually use OpenTelemetry in Java. Apply this walkthrough to your application, and you are good to go.

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Why OpenTelemetry is here to stay

Ted Young | Dec 10, 2020

Ultimately, standards are not an act of coding, they are an act of organizing. OpenTelemetry is here to stay.

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The Big Pieces: OpenTelemetry Collector design and architecture

Ted Young | Dec 7, 2020

The Big Pieces is a new series covering all things OpenTelemetry. In this installment, we’re covering the way OpenTelemetry handles the transmission part of that “telemetry” term.

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NodeJS Express: An OpenTelemetry deep dive

Ted Young | Dec 2, 2020

This week we’re looking at Javascript and Express. Node is a popular JavaScript runtime for back-end services and Express is the most well-known web framework for Node. Let's dive in!

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OpenTelemetry Python: All you need to know

Ted Young | Nov 23, 2020

This walkthrough contains all you need to know to actually use OpenTelemetry in Python. Apply this walkthrough to your application, and you are good to go.

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The Big Pieces: OpenTelemetry client design and architecture

Ted Young | Nov 19, 2020

The Big Pieces is a new series covering all things OpenTelemetry. In this post, we'll over the high-level goals of the project as a whole, then dive into the design goals of the OpenTelemetry client components which run within the application process.

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OpenTelemetry NodeJS: All you need to know

Ted Young | Nov 10, 2020

This walkthrough contains all you need to know to actually use OpenTelemetry in Node. Apply this walkthrough to your application, and you are good to go.

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OpenTelemetry Launchers: What they solve and why we need them

Ted Young | Sep 29, 2020

Introducing the OpenTelemetry Launchers: a Lightstep distribution of OpenTelemetry. The OpenTelemetry team at Lightstep created a way for developers to copy and paste one line of code to get up and running with distributed tracing.

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