kchoudhu

What valuation is this at?

What will they be reinventing from scratch for no reason?

It's the only book they've read, most likely.

I cannot believe it can be too hard to write something that takes the output of dtrace and shoves it into a span collector.

We should be using USDTs to emit trace ids that can be consumed by dtrace and shoved into whatever backend we want for tracing.

OpenTelemetry won observability mindshare, but it is entirely the wrong architectural choice: by buying into its ethos your code is held hostage by the least stable otel monitoring library for your dependencies.

Sadly, there was always an alternative that no one took: dtrace. Add USDTs to your code and then monitor progress by instrumenting it externally, sending the resulting traces to wherever you want. My sincere hope is that the renewed interest in ebpf makes this a reality soon: I never want to have to do another from opentelemetry.<whatever> import <whatever> ever again.

I'm not complaining, but also why?

Businesses

It's still a leveraged buyout.

Given how awful performance on my Windows desktop is, I am shocked that Microsoft is still investing in performance.

Perfect.

Can someone please write a '"considered harmful" considered harmful' piece.

Personally naturalized via marriage a long time ago but the birthplace/nationality arb is super interesting!

Wait -- is it country of birth or country of citizenship? If I was born in Switzerland but held a Bangladeshi passport could I possibly use the former's priority queue?