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Thursday, January 09, 2025

Week Ending January 5, 2025

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Monday, January 06, 2025

2025-01-06

OpenTelemetry Weaver

Via the official OTel GitHub organization: check out OpenTelemetry Weaver, a tool (written in Rust) that enables developers to easily develop, validate, document, and deploy semantic conventions … and more to come!

Open-source o11y stack

My tryst with Observability by Jishnu Srivastava is a hands-on experience story around OTel and open-source observability. Thanks for sharing!

Prometheus 3.0

Wondering where we are with the newest version? Read Prometheus 3.0 Brings New UI, OpenTelemetry Support and More by Matt Saunders (via InfoQ) and learn all about it!

OTel for Android issues

Via the official CNCF blog: Francisco Prieto Cardelle of Embrace wrote Solving Android app issues with OpenTelemetry: Beyond local profiling.

Observability in 2025

Yup, it's this time of the year, indeed. TheNewStack's B. Cameron Gain on Observability in 2025: OpenTelemetry and AI to Fill In Gaps. Who would have thought to find AI in there, shocker :)

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!

Monday, January 06, 2025

7 Next-Generation Prompt Engineering Techniques

With large language model (LLM) products such as ChatGPT and Gemini taking over the world, we need to adjust our skills to follow the trend.

Monday, January 06, 2025

SRE Weekly Issue #458

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, incident.io: Ever wonder how Netflix handles incidents at their scale? With incident.io, they’ve built a process that’s smooth, scalable, and keeps everyone on the same page. Tools like Catalog and Workflows make it intuitive for teams to tackle incidents consistently—no matter how big the challenge. https://incident.io/customers/netflix Your […]

Thursday, January 02, 2025

LLM Evaluation Metrics Made Easy

Metrics are a cornerstone element in evaluating any AI system, and in the case of large language models (LLMs), this is no exception.

Wednesday, January 01, 2025

7 Machine Learning Trends to Watch in 2025

Machine learning is now the cornerstone of recent technological progress, which is especially true for the current generative AI stampede.

Monday, December 30, 2024

2024-12-30

Netflix and title launches

On the Netflix Technology Blog, a new article was published: read Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale where Varun Khaitan writes about metrics that matter to a (movie) title’s success. The post explains why going beyond tracking system metrics such as error rates, latencies, and CPU utilization matters. Excellent food for thoughts!

Recapping OTel panel

ICYM the live panel broadcast, read up on Colin Contreary's Holiday Sweaters & OTel Insights: Recapping our “2025 Unwrapped” panel. Of course, the article also contains a link to the video recording of this awesome panel, if you prefer to watch it ;)

2024 retro

Dotan Horovits and Charity Majors in another great OpenObservability Talks episode: read the End-of-Year Observability Retrospective to learn more. Dotan, KUTGW!

Prometheus vulnerabilities

300,000+ Prometheus Servers and Exporters Exposed to DoS Attacks by Yakir Kadkoda and Assaf Morag of Aqua Security highlights vulnerabilities and security flaws within the Prometheus ecosystem. Recommend to peruse and apply the learnings.

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!

Monday, December 30, 2024

Machine Learning Salaries and Job Market Analysis for 2024 and Beyond

One of the most talked-about niches in tech is machine learning (ML), as developments in this area are expected to have a significant impact on IT as well as other industries.

Monday, December 30, 2024

SRE Weekly Issue #457

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: This New Year, resolve to make incident management smarter, faster, and way less stressful with FireHydrant. Modern on-call, automated incident response, and AI tools that do the heavy lifting. https://firehydrant.com/ Preventing Out-of-Memory (OOM) Kills in Kubernetes: Tips for Optimizing Container Memory Management In this post, we’ll […]

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

5 of the Most Influential Machine Learning Papers of 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) research, particularly in the machine learning (ML) domain, continues to increase the amount of attention it receives worldwide.