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OpenTelemetry Signals
What each OpenTelemetry signal is for, how traces, metrics, logs, and baggage connect, and why splitting one big log into specialised signals is worth the complexity.
Latest Writing
Thoughts on software development, technology, and more
Articles
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Integrating Agentic Systems into Event Driven Architectures
A simple layer model, three integration patterns, and the failure modes you must design around when bringing AI agents into event driven systems.
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The AI Automation Trap
Why building is easy and deciding is hard. AI eliminated creation costs but maintenance burdens remain. Teams must practice deliberate simplicity.
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Making Data Visualisations Audible
A 10-year-old hackathon idea finally comes to life. Introducing sound3fy, an open-source library that adds sonification to D3.js charts for blind and low-vision users.
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System Thinking, Governance, and GreenOps in the Age of AI
Reflections from APIdays London on systems thinking, governance as an enabler, managing complexity, and sustainability in AI systems.
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The Death(ish) of Logs
A journey through the decades exploring how logs evolved from printed records to structured data streams and their role in OpenTelemetry and modern observability.
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Observability with OpenTelemetry
Understanding the difference between monitoring and observability, and how OpenTelemetry standardises telemetry collection with traces, metrics, logs, and more.
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Choreography and Orchestration
Comparing decentralised choreography with centralised orchestration in distributed systems, their trade-offs, and when to use each approach.
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Event Driven Architectures
A comprehensive exploration of Event-Driven Architectures: events, mediating systems, event types, and the challenges of building distributed systems.