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LatestMar 25, 202610 min read

I Was a Complete Beginner in OSS. Here's the Guide I Wish I Had

I struggled with Git, synced the wrong branch, and got pinged by a maintainer on my first PR. Here's everything I learned contributing to OpenTelemetry, from forking to getting merged.

Mar 17, 20267 min read

From Clueless to Contributor: How OTel Taught Me What Observability Really Means

Monitoring and observability are not the same thing. I didn't fully get that until I started contributing to OpenTelemetry. Here's what 5+ merged PRs taught me that no course could.

Mar 8, 20268 min read

What Happens Inside Your Kubernetes Pod? I Had No Clue 😶‍🌫️ Until I Set Up OTel, Prometheus & Grafana

My Node.js app was running on Kubernetes. Pods were healthy. But I had zero visibility into what was actually happening inside. Here's how I fixed that with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.