This week’s news includes recorded talks from Strange LoopStrange Loop as well as some good-first-issue recommendations from the opentelemetry-go SDK.
OpenTelemetry Project News
A major update to the opentelemetry.ioopentelemetry.io website is underway, with some core content being ported from opentracing.ioopentracing.io. Keep an eye on progress in the website repowebsite repo.
OpenTelemetry will be participating in HacktoberfestHacktoberfest! This is a great opportunity for new contributors to get involved – be on the lookout for issues with the
hacktoberfest
label appearing in OpenTelemetry repositories.Want to contribute? Get started with one of these issues from opentelemetry-goopentelemetry-go:
Stdout exporter for builtin trace SDK #134#134
Named Tracer #127#127
SDK: Create separate package for exporter interface #77#77
Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links
Now Playing: Your Zipkin Traces in LightstepNow Playing: Your Zipkin Traces in Lightstep by David Klein
Everything You Wanted to Know About Distributed TracingEverything You Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing (video) Hungai Kevin Amuhinda at Strange Loop
Beyond Traces: the insights in trace aggregatesBeyond Traces: the insights in trace aggregates (video) Daniela Miao at Strange Loop
Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events
[Sept 24] OpenTelemetry TuesdaysOpenTelemetry Tuesdays on Twitch starting at 11am PT, co-hosted by Liz Fong-JonesLiz Fong-Jones and Isobel Redelmeier (that's me!)
[Oct 9] Making Your System Observable from the Outside-InMaking Your System Observable from the Outside-In, Joe Blubaugh at APIWorldAPIWorld
[Nov 18] If you’re headed to KubeCon + CloudNativeConKubeCon + CloudNativeCon this November, be sure to check out the Observability Practitioners SummitObservability Practitioners Summit on Day Zero - passes can be added when you register for KubeCon or by logging into your existing registration profile
Interested in joining our team? See our open positions herehere.
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From Day 0 to Day 2: Reducing the anxiety of scaling up cloud-native deployments
Jason English | Mar 7, 2023The global cloud-native development community is facing a reckoning. There are too many tools, too much telemetry data, and not enough skilled people to make sense of it all. See how you can.
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OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes: Get started with autoscaling
Moh Osman | Jan 6, 2023Learn how to leverage a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler alongside the OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes. This will enable a cluster to handle varying telemetry workloads as the collector pool aligns to demand.
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Observability-Landscape-as-Code in Practice
Adriana Villela, Ana Margarita Medina | Oct 25, 2022Learn how to put Observability-Landscape-as-Code in this hands-on tutorial. In it, you'll use Terraform to create a Kubernetes cluster, configure and deploy the OTel Demo App to send Traces and Metrics to Lightstep, and create dashboards in Lightstep.
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