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I've spent the past few months really thinking about the promise of OpenTelemetry, and how to put that promise into words. Today, I'm happy to announce the publication of a new whitepaper that distills that promise into something more approachable. Check it out, and let me know what you think! https://lnkd.in/eiZRchaT

Trying to keep this momentum going! Here's another blog post, this one's a bit more straightforward and technical: https://lnkd.in/eBg-XrK6

A CTO’s Guide to Cloud-Native: Answering the Top 10 FAQs

Langtrace now supports 30+ native integrations for tracing and observing your GenAI stack. What does this mean? If you use any combination of these LLMs, DBs or libraries, Langtrace will automatically generate OpenTelemetry compatible traces to serve deep insights about your stack. Best part? Only 2 lines of code is needed for setting it up! 🚀

🦑 Informative Demystifying Tech Terms: A Beginner’s Guide https://lnkd.in/d3iy3FV9

🚨 Premature abstraction is just as bad as premature optimisation. DRY and all other development patterns are just guidelines and not laws. Focus on spotting patterns and then extracting abstractions, frameworks, etc. rather than rigidly applying whatever guideline is popular. "Applying DRY principles too rigidly leads to premature abstractions that make future changes more complex than necessary. When in doubt, keep behaviors separate until enough common patterns emerge over time that justify the coupling. On a small scale, managing duplication can be simpler than resolving a premature abstraction’s complexity. In early stages of development, tolerate a little duplication and wait to abstract." https://lnkd.in/ds9ZZSHy #softwaredevelopment #softwarepatterns

This wisdom hit hard 😣 Applying DRY principles too rigidly leads to premature abstractions that make future changes more complex than necessary. Consider carefully if code is truly redundant or just superficially similar. When designing abstractions, do not prematurely couple behaviors that may evolve separately in the longer term. When in doubt, keep behaviors separate until enough common patterns emerge over time that justify the coupling. In early stages of development, tolerate a little duplication and wait to abstract. https://lnkd.in/exaGenHH

Discover how to transform your code by mastering observability strategy. Learn more in the latest addition to the #O11y guide: https://okt.to/raRuHA

GPT is soooo good at making simple web pages. It took me less than 5 minutes to build a web page with an archive of my presentations (https://lnkd.in/eCi86NBa). Yes, it's far from perfect, but it's still well thought out. All the presentations are added dynamically from JSON.

DateFormatter is super useful, but it's also really error-prone 😩 It's so easy to set a bad format or re-create the formatter too often... But did you know that a simpler and more robust alternative exists? https://lnkd.in/dDtBDbsD