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For part two of my journey in using OpenTelemetry (Otel) with Sinatra I am replacing my Lightstep instrumentation with the OTel version. Besides updating the instrumentation, I am also deploying production instances of an OTel Collector and Jaeger. The goal of part 2 is to have my first three applications shipping traces to both a local Jaeger instance and to Lightstep in both test and production and to have Jaeger included in the Docker compose workflows used during development.
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My favorite personal project is an application called PiWeatherRock… or it was before I dove in head-first working to update it and create a community for it’s users. Tons of enthusiasm morphed into something else
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OpenTelemetry (aka OTel) is becoming the standard for distributed tracing. This is the first in a multi-part series where I will document my trials, tribulations, and successes along the road of using OTel to instrument multiple applications. The first few are all ruby applications and some that I hope to be able to do later are written in Java. My goal is to instrument the applications using one or more standards-compliant libraries and then send the spans to an OTel collector. The OTel collector will then send them on to one or more backends such as Jaeger, Lightstep, and/or Datadog.
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For the last few days I have been trying to figure out why, all of a sudden, powerline has stopped working in vim. Whenever I start vim I get this error:
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A recap of the first virtual Puppet Camp by an experienced camper.
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