SE Radio 556: Alex Boten on Open Telemetry

Software engineer Alex Boten, author of Cloud
Native Observability with Open Telemetry, joins SE Radio
host Robert Blumen for a conversation about software
telemetry and the OpenTelemetry project. After a brief review of
the topic and the OpenTelemetry project's origins rooted in the
need for interoperability between telemetry sources and back
ends, they discuss the open telemetry server and its features,
including transforms, filtering, sampling, and rate limiting.
They consider a range of topics, starting with alternative
topologies with and without the telemetry server, server
pipelines, and scaling out the server, as well as a detailed look
at extension points and extensions; authentication; adoption; and
migration.