OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 8

OpenTelemetry Project News

• There was a lot of buzz around OpenTelemetry at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2019 at the end of November, including a keynote speech by Liz Fong-Jones and Sarah Novotny, detailing the effective merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing into OpenTelemetry, how users and vendors alike can focus on getting value out of their data rather than redundant and repetitive instrumentation efforts, and more.
• More recently, Liz-Fong Jones presented on Cultivating Production Excellence in Sydney, Australia on Dec. 5th.

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• OpenTelemetry at KubeCon NA 2019 (blog) a detailed recap of the talks and events by Sergey Kanzhelev
• OpenTelemetry Playlist from KubeCon NA '19 (video playlist) including the keynote speech from Sarah Novotny and Liz Fong-Jones, as well as talks from Morgan McLean, Tristan Sloughter, Chris Kleinknecht, Sergey Kanzhelev, and Rob Skillington
• Getting Started with OpenTelemetry Alphas: Python (blog) by Alex Boten

Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events

• Stay tuned to the OpenTelemetry Twitch channel for the weekly show "OTel 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, erlang, or JavaScript (among others), find an issue and get started!
• Join the community on GitHub and the conversation on Gitter