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The components of OpenTelemetry

Posted on May 25, 2022 | Dave Anderson

Guest post originally published on the Scout APM blog by Dave Anderson, CTO, Scout APM Before we dive into the Collector, let’s cover the components that make up the OpenTelemetry project. Scout’s blog post “What is…


Service meshes are on the rise – but greater understanding and experience are required

Posted on May 17, 2022

CNCF conducted a microsurvey of the cloud native community at the end of last year to discover how organizations adopt service meshes. Overall we found that adoption is high and growing, but the community is still…


How do you integrate Emissary Ingress with OPA

Posted on May 6, 2022 | Tayyab Jamadar

Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Tayyab Jamadar API gateways play a vital role while exposing microservices. They are an additional hop in the network that the incoming request must go through in order…


Twelve-factor app anno 2022

Posted on April 28, 2022 | Anders Qvist

Guest post originally published on Xenit’s blog by Anders Qvist The Twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that was first formulated by developers associated with Heroku. It’s been ten years since the first presentation…


Are the three pillars of observability still relevant?

Posted on April 27, 2022 | Rachel Dines

Guest post originally published on Chronosphere’s blog by Rachel Dines For some, observability has been defined as a collection of distinct data types known as the three pillars—logs, metrics, and distributed traces. While these are all…


OpenTelemetry and Python: A complete instrumentation guide

Posted on April 22, 2022

Guest post originally published on the Timescale blog by James Blackwood-Sewell, Timescale OpenTelemetry is considered by many the future of instrumentation, and it’s not hard to understand why. In a world where successful companies are software…


Continuous profiling in Kubernetes using Pyroscope

Posted on April 15, 2022

Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Sayed Belal Developers typically need to look at performance bottlenecks in production applications to determine the cause of the problem. To do this, you usually need information…


Configuring OpenTelemetry in Ruby

Posted on March 29, 2022

Guest post by Scout APM OpenTelemetry is enabling a revolution in how Observability data is collected and transmitted. See our What Is OpenTelemetry post on why this is an important inflection point in the Observability space….


Testing cloud native best practices with the CNF Test Suite

Posted on March 24, 2022

Community post by Joel Hans for CNCF The telecommunications industry is the backbone of today’s increasingly-digital economies, but it faces a difficult new challenge in evolving to meet modern infrastructure practices. How did telecommunications get itself…


Principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes

Posted on February 17, 2022 | Elastisys' team

Guest post originally published on Elastisys’ blog by the Elastisys‘ team Designing scalable cloud native applications requires considerable thought, as there are many challenges to overcome. Even with the great clouds we have today for deploying…