OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 21

OTel’s Ruby implementation (currently tracing only) has joined the ranks of beta releases, which currently includes JavaScript, Java, Python, Go, and Erlang. Check the project status page for up-to-date information on each implementation’s progress.

Observe2020 wrapped up yesterday, featuring a lot of presentations and excitement around OpenTelemetry. Stay tuned for links to the talks and round-up conversations. In the meantime, check out this awesome digital art by @MindsEyeCCF for @dyladan’s presentation, and every other speaker’s! Head over to the o11y2020 twitter to see them all. These OpenTelemetry SIGs are looking for extra support! Open source efforts rely on developers like you -- get involved with one of these implementations:

• OTel-Rust is looking for contributors and maintainers
• OTel-PHP is looking for contributors and maintainers
• OTel-C++is looking for contributors and maintainers
• OTel-Ruby has seen a lot of contributions, but would benefit from having more dedicated maintainers

This week’s Featured Issues:

• OpenTelemetry-Ruby #170: Good first issue: BatchSpanProcessor exporter not interrupted test is flaky
• OpenTelemetry-Rust #17: Help wanted: B3 Context Propagation

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• How to Start Tracing with OpenTelemetry and NodeJS (blog) by @gianarb
• Virtual Rejekts 2020 (full conference recording)
• Pay for the Observability, Not Just the Telemetry (podcast) by Joab Jackson
• The Case for Human-Centric Observability with Austin Parker (conference video)
• Health Checks and Graceful Degradation in Distributed Systems (blog) by Cindy Sridharan
• Kelsey Hightower and Ben Sigelman Debate Microservices vs. Monoliths (podcast) by The New Stack Context

Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events

• The Linux Foundation has announced new event dates for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020: Thursday, August 13 to Sunday, August 16, 2020
• Stay tuned to the OpenTelemetry Twitch channel for the weekly show ‘OpenTelemetry Tuesdays’ and event-specific livestreams

Want to Contribute?

• How to Start Contributing to OpenTelemetry (blog) by Austin Parker
• OpenTelemetry is an open source project with implementations in many different languages, so whether you prefer to work with Python, Go, Java, or Node (among others), find an issue and get started!
• Join the community on GitHub and the conversation on Gitter