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Open Telemetry Intro Lightning Talk

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Tomas's wroclove.rb 2025 lightning talk, framed as extra context after an earlier talk on structured logging. Argues that any non-trivial Ruby application with an APM vendor (New Relic, etc.) is effectively a current or future OpenTelemetry user whether conscious or not, because vendors are switching to OTel. Covers why logs alone aren't enough (no cross-service connection), the classical logs/metrics/traces trio, the unified 'wide event' concept with spans and events, the OpenTelemetry collector glueing spans with the same trace ID and parent-span IDs across services, adding attributes and events to the current span in Ruby, and using open-telemetry logging integration so logger.info events belong to a span. Flags that OpenTelemetry is still evolving and the Ruby implementation is immature (logging is experimental), but recommends learning it anyway. Recommends 'a pretty awesome book' on creating custom traces.

date
2025-03-14
type
lightning-talk
talk Open Telemetry Intro Lightning Talk
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Tomas's talk is an introduction to OpenTelemetry.
talk Open Telemetry Intro Lightning Talk
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The talk builds on an earlier structured-logging talk and extends it to OpenTelemetry.
talk Open Telemetry Intro Lightning Talk
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Wide Event concept
Explains the wide event as OpenTelemetry's unifying primitive.
talk Open Telemetry Intro Lightning Talk
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Talk argues schemaless databases fit telemetry workloads.
talk Open Telemetry Intro Lightning Talk
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Talk describes how trace IDs tie spans across services together.
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Open Telemetry Intro Lightning Talk talk
Tomas gave the OpenTelemetry intro lightning talk.
talk Open Telemetry Intro Lightning Talk
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Lightning talk session at wroclove.rb 2025.

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