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The number of CPRA requests I wrote this weekend is [redacted].
February 2, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I hope in the future we can look back on this moment and remember the time there was not an open-source EMT management software stack.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
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December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Can we talk about Tokio Tracing? Impressively non-ergonomic!
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Someone should make a wallpaper that scrolls an endless block of diffs removing an awful dependency. Like github.com/open-telemet.... I'll read that shit all day.
Remove usage of gogoproto and generate the structs with pdatagen by bogdandrutu · Pull Request #14069 · open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
This is a huge PR that does not touch any of the critical logic "marshaling/unmarshaling" of the pdata. We have e2e tests with the go official generated protobufs to ensure nothing breaks...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A year ago, I stepped down from the @opentelemetry.io technical committee to avoid over-representation in the group for my new employer. Today, I re-joined the committee.

I continue to focus on the Go Collector, the Rust OTel-Arrow dataflow pipeline, and Sampling projects.
October 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Now that we're using "shovelware" as a noun, I have to say I've noticed people underestimate the amount of skill work that goes into shoveling.
September 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow project ("OTel-Arrow") is kicking off phase 2 of the project, building an end-to-end OpenTelemetry pipeline in Rust.

github.com/open-telemet...
OTel-Arrow Phase 2 · Issue #294 · open-telemetry/otel-arrow
Summary The OTel-Arrow team is embarking on Phase 2 of the project. The OTel-Arrow Protocol (OTAP) is a proposed enhancement to the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP). This was planned in two phases bas...
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February 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM