OpenTelemetry, for some the biggest romance story in open source, as it took off with the merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing. But what is OpenTelemetry from the perspective of a contributor? Listen to this episode and here it from Daniel Dyla, Co-Maintainer OTel JS and W3C Distributed Tracing WG, and Armin Ruech who is on the Technical Committee focusing on cross language specifications. They give us insights into what it takes to contribute and drive an open source projects and give us an update on OpenTelemetry, the current status, what they are working on right now as well as the near future improvements they are excited about.

Show Links:
The OpenTelemetry Project
https://opentelemetry.io/

Daniel Dyla
https://engineering.dynatrace.com/persons/daniel-dyla/

Armin Ruech
https://engineering.dynatrace.com/persons/armin-ruech/

List of instrumented libraries
https://opentelemetry.io/registry/

Contribute to OTel
https://opentelemetry.io/docs/contribution-guidelines/

OpenTelemetry Tutorials on IsItObservable
https://isitobservable.io/open-telemetry