ANAtharva Naikinatharva026.hashnode.dev·Sep 5 · 7 min readThe Wall I Hit Building Panya, and What OpenTelemetry Showed MeEvery real project has a moment where the thing you planned to build runs into something you didn't control. This is the story of the biggest one I hit building Panya — an AI shopping agent for Razorp00
PSPuneet Singhinfreecodecamp.org·Sep 4 · 29 min readClaude Code Observability with OpenTelemetryAgentic coding tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, and Cursor have become ubiquitous for everyday software development. As agentic systems mature, much of the work developers hav10
CVChosen Vincentinfreecodecamp.org·Sep 3 · 16 min readHow OpenTelemetry Works: A Complete GuideIf you’re a software developer or DevOps engineer, you've probably come across OpenTelemetry. It comes up a lot, especially when talking about observability, monitoring, or debugging distributed syste00
JTJakson Tateinservermo.hashnode.dev·Sep 3 · 4 min readThe OpenTelemetry Trap: How K8s Autoscaling Bankrupts Your Cloud BillYou instrumented your applications correctly, adopted OpenTelemetry (OTel), and finally achieved end-to-end tracing across your microservices. The engineering team is thrilled. Then, Finance forwards 00
LHLászló Hadházyincordata.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 18 min readThe trace_id was the easy part — Rust, OTel, LokiAn earlier post listed what the difficult middle of a data platform actually consists of, and one item on that list was "observability that points at the right wire when something breaks". This post i00
PKPRINCE KUMARinprincekumar-engineer.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 28 min readBuilding Scalable Systems: Caching, Rate Limiting and ObservabilityWhat happens when your application suddenly gets 1 million users? At small scale, a web application can look deceptively simple: User → Application → Database → Response As traffic grows, however, ev00
MTMuhammad Tahirinmtdeveloper.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 13 min readArchitecting Full-Stack Observability: OpenTelemetry, Structured Logging, & Distributed TracingThis article was originally published on Muhammad Tahir's Portfolio. Introduction & Industry Context Modern software architectures, dominated by microservices and serverless functions, promise scalabi00
GYGulshan Yadavinmrgulshanyadav.hashnode.dev·Aug 28 · 5 min readOpenTelemetry vs Prometheus: Why You Almost Certainly Need BothThis gets framed as a choice, and it mostly isn't one. They occupy different layers, and a normal production setup runs both. Understanding why saves a lot of wasted migration effort. What each one ac00
CECloudLink Editorialincloudlink-engineering.hashnode.dev·Aug 25 · 8 min readProduction OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes: A Hardened Gateway Pattern You Can Roll Back SafelyIf your Kubernetes observability story still starts with "we deployed a collector and it seemed fine," you probably have two hidden risks: weak runtime defaults and painful rollbacks. The OpenTelemetr10
VPVed Pandeyinvedpandeydev.hashnode.dev·Aug 21 · 13 min readBuilding Scalable Systems: Caching, Rate Limiting and ObservabilityWhat happens when your application suddenly gets 1 million users? Everything that worked fine with 100 users starts breaking. Pages load slow, the database chokes, and some users get blocked. Today we10
