Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Foreword

It has never been a better time to be a software engineer.

As engineers, we are motivated by impact and efficiency—and who can argue that both are not skyrocketing, particularly in comparison with time spent and energy invested?

These days, you can build out a scalable, elastic, distributed system to serve your code to millions of users per day with a few clicks—without ever having to personally understand much about operations or architecture. You can write lambda functions or serverless code, hit save, and begin serving them to users immediately. 

It feels like having superpowers, especially for those of us who remember the laborious times before. Every year brings more powerful APIs and higher-level abstractions – many, many infinitely ...