2023-10-23¶

eBPF for network monitoring¶

Israel Ogbole on Getting Started with eBPF: Monitoring TCP Retransmissions Using eBPF, Go and Prometheus, a hands-on deep dive. Thanks for sharing!

Apache Kafka and OTel¶

In Maximizing Scalability - Apache Kafka and OpenTelemetry Nočnica Mellifera discusses multi-collector architecture and how Apache Kafka can be useful in that context.

Integration testing with OTel¶

Level Up Node.js E2E and Integration Testing with OpenTelemetry by Adnan Rahic shows trace-based testing for JavaScript in action.

eBPF auto-instrumentation¶

And eBPF strikes again in this edition: Eden Federman wrote Unlocking Speed: eBPF-Based Auto-Instrumentation Over 20x Faster Than Traditional Instrumentatione, sharing some interesting numbers.

Prometheus storage¶

An excellent deep dive by Vladimir Guryanov, check out Prometheus and its storage: Architecture, challenges, and solutions to learn the details, down to the Log-structured merge-tree (LSMT) level. Well done!

Let's Profile OTel collector¶

In Let's Profile OpenTelemetry Collector - Ep18 (YouTube video) you can look over the shoulder of Frederic Branczyk. Not every day you see a start-up CEO code, but here you can learn how he improved the OTel collector based on profile data.

Measuring Git performance¶

Directly from the GitHub blog: Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry by Jeff Hostetler, a really cool use case!

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