Writing

A book, a course, and 53 posts and guides, newest first — podcast appearances are on the podcasts page.

OpenTelemetry For Dummies, Dash0 Special Edition

What separates observability from monitoring, how to correlate logs, metrics and traces, and how to tell an OpenTelemetry-native platform from one that merely supports it.

course · Platform Engineering University · 120 min

Observability for Platform Engineering

Five modules on making observability a core platform capability — the tooling landscape, OpenTelemetry, and automation. Taught with Michele Mancioppi.

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