Welcoming New Community Managers to OpenTelemetry Back in October 2022, I wrote about becoming OpenTelemetry’s first community manager. At the time, the project had just over 5000 contributors. Since then, those numbers have grown considerably –…

A passing of the torch. 🔥

Last month, #OpenTelemetry welcomed new Community Managers. The #OTel community has quadrupled in size under Austin's stewardship. We are grateful for his years of hard work and look forward to Reese, Adriana, and Julia's vision for the future!

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I finally figured out what all the fuss is about #dbt!
Better late than never, right?

I've written up my notes here: ✍🏻 rmoff.net/2026/02/19/t...

Toothpaste Tube Psychology. What Brushing Habits Reveal About Identity Access There are two kinds of people in this world.

Toothpaste Tube Psychology just like Identity Access
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#IdentityAccessManagement #BehavioralBiometrics #CyberSecurity #HumanBehavior #DigitalGovernance #ZeroTrust #ModernIdentity #Observability #ObserveID

Through the heatwave haze, the hypocrisy of Australia’s fossil fuel policy shines bright | Clean Air The heatwave in Melbourne and Adelaide this week is likely to become the norm. We should prepare now

Extreme heat is blasting eastern Australia. It’s driven by fossil fuels, development of which the Albanese government continues to support.

The Guardian Australia’s climate/environment journalist calls it out

@adammorton.bsky.social @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BREAKING: WHO announces the UK has lost its measles elimination status. Australia is close to the same threshold.
#Measles #VaccinesWork

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Deep reading along with this bug fix.
Gets into async context tracking and APM/OTEL implications.

New analysis: 0.25% of 2025 Bluesky posts contained citations to research...while only 0.000006% of X/Twitter posts did.

In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky

Good read. Worth mining through the links, for articles like 'Data science at the Singularity'

Definitely

That's more than 2 cents. A good reference point for 2026 conversations

The abstraction you didn't ask for When I say

I've spent a couple of days working on this one, and it didn't end up quite where I expected it to. But I think this is the clearest way I can describe where my head's at, why I approach LLMs in the way that I do, and why, while it's describing-not-prescribing, it's a little light prescribing too.

Whoops

Perfect read to start your 2026. This is where vibe coders live and breathe dreams of world domination without consequences.
Seriously insightful and insane at the same time.

Good interview. It got past the obvious differences, and dig further. 👍

Enjoyed this short interview and the one referenced with Miguel Luna. How did I miss the opentelemetry.io page on T-shaped signals??

opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/s...

Good write-up. Understanding sidecar dynamics better is something I've been chasing for a while.

Good read. Lots of nice recommendations

Good read

🔥 Mark your calendars! OTel Unplugged EU 2026 is happening Feb 2 in Brussels (day after FOSDEM)
No slides, just real technical conversations with the #OpenTelemetry community. You pick the topics. Limited space!
Register: buff.ly/aaUyQsx
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Agree. It's a standout. It's been time to move on from YELP, movie databases, and Game of Thrones, and the agentic combo nailed it.

Great talk, and seriously I was laughing with you. The glazing!!!! 🤣 it's so true

OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don’t A practical, no-fluff guide to understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector - what it does, how it works, real architecture patterns (with and without it), and how to decide if/when you should deploy one for performance, control, security, and cost efficiency.

OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don't | Discussion

The Debug Trap: Why Smart Engineers Waste Hours on Trivial Problems Last month, I watched three senior engineers burn four hours debugging a “mysterious” Kubernetes issue that turned out to be a kubectl version upgrade. The same week, another team spent an entire…

Great lesson for all engineers: "...your first instinct shouldn’t be to understand a problem. It should be to undo whatever caused it." @anshulsao #cloudnative #observability #o11y @cncf.io @chronosphereio
www.cncf.io/blog/2025/09...

Thanks! Bookmarking this for a slow read.

Thank you!!!

Thank you so much!!!!!!
It's super early here. I'll watch with coffee once the sun is up.

It's when you can't troubleshoot the setup, and you're left with trial and error, and a need for even more coffee

Github 😍

The cat photos are priceless. Really keen to see how people are dealing with decoupling to solve complexity, especially when not everything is "pure".