It still feels awkward creating a personal blog. Still, times are changing. I want to own the content I write, not any random platform on which you can post content. So content will, from now on, appear here first.

I want to write again; I’ve been too focused on my day job since the pandemic. It’s time to write again for the community. I hope you enjoy the content, be warned, though, it will be geeky.

OpenTelemetry, own your telemetry data

Your telemetry data has way more business value than you would think.

 Posted on February 5, 2023  |  1 minutes  |  196 words  |  Alex Van Boxel

Your telemetry data has way more business value than you would think. I’ve been excited about OpenTelemetry since its conception. OpenTelemetry was born out of the merger of two competing Open Source projects: OpenCensus and OpenTracing. The union of two projects was already unique in the Open Source world. Due to the merger, experts from both camps could start from a clean slate but learn from the mistakes made in the past. [Read More]
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