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HN always grumbles about OTel, but I agree. It's fine, and important: https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/opentelemetry-and-the-value-o...

I understand the author's perspective in the linked article, but none of that data shows a project in trouble? Some languages have more resources than others, but those all look like healthy open source projects

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Oh my god. A Jeremy Morrell sighting in the wild.

Every time I share your blog (and I share it a lot) I tell people:

"This guy started a blog in 2024. Wrote three posts and all three of them would still make my top ten list of 'greatest posts on observability' today".

'A practitioner's guide to wide events' especially is still my number 1.

D'aww, thank you! I'm hoping to find time to write more this year

I'd make a wager that things would go better smoother faster if folks tried more stuff, ventures forth more on their own. It's obviously not great that there's no semantic convention that's perfect and just works for everything, and yeah it takes a while. I feel like the real data I'd want is who else, how many people show up to say they've tried something. Is that happening? Whether specs are really good enough advance or not, to me, is often whether enough people have tried it to find out.

The net of this is, otel is a very flexible system you can use and adapt in all kinds of ways and while the spec is important, using the toolkit to FAFO yourself, ahead of any beaten path, should really be encouraged. That's the message I'd want to see being radiated out about otel.

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