Episode Details

About our guest:

Jacob Aronoff (he/him/his) is a Staff Engineer at ServiceNow Cloud Observability, formerly Lightstep, the tech lead for the Telemetry Pipeline team, and an OpenTelemetry maintainer for the OpenTelemetry Operator project. He's spent his career in a variety of backend roles acting as a distributed systems engineer, an SRE and a DevOps professional. Jacob's focus is enabling customers to reliably send telemetry data with a focus on Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry.

Find our guest on:

• LinkedIn
• X (Twitter)
• Mastodon

Find us on:

• All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
• All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela

Show Links:

• Elixir
• Swift
• OpenTelemetry (OTel)
• OpenTelemetry Operator
• Prometheus
• OTel Collector
• OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)
• OTel for Kubernetes
• OTel Operator channel on CNCF Slack
• OTel End User Working Group
• statsd
• OpenTracing
• OpenCensus
• Jaeger
• Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
• OTel Operator Target Allocator
• Prometheus Re-labeling
• Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP)
• SignalFX

Additional Links:

• Adriana's articles on the OpenTelemetry Operator
• Jacob's Talk at KubeCon NA 2023
• Jacob on OTel Q&A
• Jacob on OTel in Practice
• Jacob on the Maintainable Podcast
• Adriana on the Maintainable Podcast

Transcript:

ADRIANA: Hey, y'all. Welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela. Coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And geeking out. With me today is Jacob Aronoff, who is also one of my coworkers. Welcome, Jacob.