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Telemetry’s Friction Coefficient: How My Pipeline is Burning Network, CPU and Storage.

May 7 · 17 min read · 💡 TL;DR: We explore the computational "toll" of moving row-oriented protobuf-encoded OTLP data from instrumentation to the final dashboard, and how they impact the overall observability bill. I usu

Choosing Your Observability Datastore: A Business Proposition, Not a Marketing Feature.

Apr 20 · 15 min read · It’s been quite some time now, working in the observability space. Most of my time has been spent talking to engineers about how they are navigating observability at their organizations and the hurdle

Loading... Loading... Loading: How an ISP Block Taught Me to Stop Ignoring DNS Monitoring

Mar 5 · 7 min read · So, I was sitting at my desk a few mornings ago, just going through the usual routine with a cup of coffee in hand, clearing some logs, trying to push a tiny hotfix, and suddenly, everything just stop

Database Sharding vs Partitioning

Feb 25 · 15 min read · Let me start with a little confession, when I first started my engineering journey, I genuinely used to think database partitioning and sharding were the exact same thing. Like, literally the same con

How OTLP Uses Protobuf to Empowers OpenTelemetry...

Jan 7 · 7 min read · We already know what is this OpenTelemetry, what it has and how it has reshaped the observability landscape. But this blog post is different. It talks about what empowers the OpenTelemetry project, th