Blog
Notes on things I build, break, and figure out along the way.
opentelemetryHow to write an instrumentation
The reference guide starts at step one, define rules. Everything genuinely difficult happens before that line: finding the seam, enumerating the entry points, and knowing whether you are allowed to create a span at all.
opentelemetryInside OpenTelemetry Go
Go compiled away the very flexibility that Java instrumentation depends on. So the intervention moved into the build itself. How -toolexec works, why the design was forced rather than chosen, and where to start reading the codebase.
opentelemetryWhat the heck is observability?
I picked an open source project before I understood the subject. This is the introduction to observability I wanted six months ago: what it actually means, what traces really are, and why instrumentation is the expensive part.
metaHello, world
Why this site exists and what I plan to write about.
workflowHow I publish on this site
The publishing workflow — a markdown file, a git push, and nothing else. Also a demo of images, video embeds, and code blocks.