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austin ce

Pitre dish isolated against dark background Photo by Michael Schiffer on Unsplash

Using OpenTelemetry with a Prometheus Global Registry

OpenTelemetry (OTel) has been on my radar for a while, but learning it has been too daunting a task to start. I recently had the opportunity (read: no escape) when it came time to instrument our applications at Immerok.

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austin ce

This week's post is a grab bag of places on the internet that I've found helpful for connecting with communities. There are so many tools out there, how are you supposed to use them all without breaking anything? I haven't figured that out yet — when I'm really stuck, or have an idea to make something better, getting in touch, joining a zoom, etc. with the people who make the tool has been the most effective and rewarding way to unstick.

Let's hop in

A GIF of my dog, Moody, jumping alongside a toad at night in my floodlight-lit gravel driveway. He doesn't hurt it, but is understandably confused.

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austin ce

Last time we took a look at SQL, one of the most popular declarative APIs, and imagined what it would look like if identifiers were controlled by the system instead of the user, e.g. you must look up the identifier for a table in order to add records to it.

This was inconvenient, but workable within the sequential context of SQL execution. Now, let's use a less contrived example to see how it extends to control plane APIs, where forcing sequential execution makes modeling workflows complex and frankly just not fun.