Leading the industry with Open Source | Ben Sigelman of OpenTelemetry

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https://dub.sh/BbjrncD Ben Sigelman https://twitter.com/el_bhs OpenTelemetry https://opentelemetry.io/ Highlight https://www.highlight.io/ https://twitter.com/thejaykhatri https://twitter.com/highlightio Channels @highlight-io Summary The journey to OpenTelemetry began with the need for a standardized way to collect monitoring data from cloud-native applications. Two open-source projects emerged to address this challenge: OpenTracing and OpenCensus. OpenTracing focused on distributed tracing, tracking requests across complex systems. OpenCensus, on the other hand, offered a wider scope, including tracing alongside metrics collection. In 2019, recognizing the strengths of both projects and the benefits of a unified approach, OpenTracing and OpenCensus merged to form OpenTelemetry. This collaboration brought together their respective communities and fostered a single, well-supported solution for application observability. Today, OpenTelemetry is a thriving project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, offering a future-proof path for monitoring the complexities of modern software. 00:00:00:00 Cold open 00:01:32:13 Ben's introduction 00:03:21:23 Social media to Lightstep 00:06:53:11 A hard pivot for Lightstep 00:08:39:22 Starting OTel 00:13:02:09 Early days of OTel 00:15:31:15 Instrumenting Google 00:19:19:10 OTel vs Lightstep 00:24:39:19 Potential improvements 00:30:03:16 Cardinality 00:34:32:09 Outro