OpenTelemetryStaff+
When traces lie
Sampling, baggage, and the quiet ways an OTel pipeline can convince you the wrong service is on fire.
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Systems stories from the sharp edge
I write about the work that sits above “make it work”: OpenTelemetry that tells the truth, data platforms that survive load, and AI integrations that behave in production. Depth over demos. Tradeoffs over buzzwords. More about me.
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Big dataPipelines
Pipelines that think (and ones that only pretend)
Building data paths where freshness, correctness, and cost are design inputs — not postmortems.
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Wiring models into production without losing the plot
Integrating LLMs and ML services like any other unreliable dependency: contracts, observability, and escape hatches.
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Adventures in Go: heap fires and hard-won calm
When an overnight ETL kept lighting up the heap monitor — and how profiling beat cleverness.
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