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opentelemetry-demo
This repository contains the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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opentelemetry-examples
Example code and resources for working with OpenTelemetry, provided by Lightstep
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keptn
Discontinued Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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Finally, the main event! I’d been to the conference center on Monday to pick up my badge, but the volume of people that day didn’t even compare to how busy things got on Wednesday. It was a whirlwind of a day, and I spent some of my time at the Lightstep booth. The Lightstep crew did demos of the OTel Demo App to illustrate Observability-Landscape-as-Code in action, which Ana and I poured our blood, terror, terror, sweat, and (happy?) tears into it before KubeCon. It’s a great little demo, if I do say so myself, and I definitely recommend that you check it out. (Shameless plug, I know. Sorrynotsorry.)
As Wednesday kicked off, it was great to feel the buzz and excitement of folks so eager to learn and connect. From Day 1’s keynote, I really enjoyed the reminder that companies benefiting from Kubernetes and the CNCF ecosystem should be getting involved, giving back, and mentoring others. There was a lot of love to maintainers and contributors in the ecosystem, and as someone involved in the Kubernetes Release Team for Kubernetes v1.25 and v1.26, it was a huge honor to see my face up in there with the rest of the team! 💙
I spent Day 2 at the Colony Club to attend OTel Unplugged. This event was sponsored by Lightstep, Honeycomb, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace, Crowdstrike, and NGINX. I came into the event not knowing what to expect. I can sometimes clamp up when I’m around folks that I don’t know, but because I was helping with the event check-in, I got to say hello to a number of the attendees, which helped break the ice. And it turns out that there were a lot of names that I recognized from my work in the OTel community, and it was nice to connect in person with folks whom I’d only previously met through Slack or Zoom.
If there is any conference that is on My Conference Bucket List™, it is most definitely KubeCon. I have a love-hate relationship with Kubernetes (don’t we all, though?), and have spent hours trying to understand its wiley ways, and cursing at my terminal at yet another CrashLoopBackOff. So to go to KubeCon and nerd out on Kubernetes just sounded awesome to me.
One of the other places I spent a lot of time at at KubeCon NA was the CNCF Project Pavillion. I was very happy to see that it was a bit larger than the area we had during KubeCon EU, but I still wish that it was bigger and wasn’t so tucked away in the corner. A number of booths were showcasing their projects with demos through the week, hosted Q&A time, and gave away swag. If you are still trying to understand the Cloud Native Ecosystem, you can look at this very extensive map of the landscape and projects under the CNCF, some of which are more advanced than others. Of course I’m biased, but I’m really excited for the work that Keptn is doing in helping developers have more control over their application lifecycle. I’m also very excited to see where Backstage goes and how other CNCF projects can integrate with their service catalog.
I spent Day 2 at the Colony Club to attend OTel Unplugged. This event was sponsored by Lightstep, Honeycomb, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace, Crowdstrike, and NGINX. I came into the event not knowing what to expect. I can sometimes clamp up when I’m around folks that I don’t know, but because I was helping with the event check-in, I got to say hello to a number of the attendees, which helped break the ice. And it turns out that there were a lot of names that I recognized from my work in the OTel community, and it was nice to connect in person with folks whom I’d only previously met through Slack or Zoom.
I popped in and out of Open Observability Day, and of the talks that I caught, there were two talks that I really enjoyed. One was OTel Me How to Build a Data Pipeline for Observability, by Daniel Kim and Reese Lee. Even though I was already familiar with the content, I really appreciated Daniel and Reese’s super energetic presentation style. It was definitely a welcome pick-me-up to help fight post-lunch food coma. The other talk I really enjoyed was What Can eBPF Actually do for Modern-Day Observability? by Ori Shussman. In it, he talks about how eBPF lets us see data that is otherwise not visible. For example, eBPF is useful for providing greater insight into gRPC calls, which are notoriously difficult to observe. 🤯I also wanted to give a special shout-out to Opening the Door to Observability, by Libby Meren. Although I missed this talk, this topic is very near and dear to my heart, because in my previous role, I had to spend a chunk of time trying to get buy-in on doing Observability The Right Way ™.
One of the other places I spent a lot of time at at KubeCon NA was the CNCF Project Pavillion. I was very happy to see that it was a bit larger than the area we had during KubeCon EU, but I still wish that it was bigger and wasn’t so tucked away in the corner. A number of booths were showcasing their projects with demos through the week, hosted Q&A time, and gave away swag. If you are still trying to understand the Cloud Native Ecosystem, you can look at this very extensive map of the landscape and projects under the CNCF, some of which are more advanced than others. Of course I’m biased, but I’m really excited for the work that Keptn is doing in helping developers have more control over their application lifecycle. I’m also very excited to see where Backstage goes and how other CNCF projects can integrate with their service catalog.