Developer Continuous Feedback for the rest of us — After months of development that actually started in a Medium blog post, I’m happy to share Digma is launching today to offer some new ways to use feedback when coding. The vision was clear from the beginning: I saw how developers have access to amazing information, courtesy of major advances…

An easy non-obtrusive way to collect data about your dockerized app without changing your existing docker-compose.yml or docker files — This is just a neat trick that I discovered when I was trying to collect OTEL data about my application which was running via Docker Compose. I was trying to understand more about the code using tracing. …

Things you can do right now to learn new and valuable things that can improve your code. — There are many common mistakes I’ve seen repeated over the years while trying to make observability initiatives successful. However, the most critical and fundamental of these organizational stumbles is the irresistible infatuation with technology and toolings themselves. It should not come as a surprise. Many ‘let’s add observability platform X’…

Your code has something to tell you — Call for Developers We are looking for senior Java developers who are interested in exploring how to use observability to improve their code to join the beta program for Digma: a free runtime linter plugin for Jetbrains/Java. …

How a Java library is taking a completely new approach to understanding what the code does, and why it makes perfect developer sense — A while back, I wrote about the fact that logs need an overhaul, and that practices that were relevant when logs were still text messages in files may no longer be relevant in an age when logs traces and metrics are as artifacts and observations stored in cloud platforms.

Continuous deployment vs. continuous delivery. Here’s some ways to not lose track of the ultimate goal: continuous improvement — Accelerating releases all the way to continuous deployment, that is, releasing more often, was never simply about speed or velocity. Those were simply great selling points to justify investing in such modern practices to a less tech-savvy or more business-minded stakeholder.

Python decorators can help keep OpenTelemetry tracing instrumentation DRY — Last week, I wrote a post on the topic of using the Decorator design pattern to help remove some of the boilerplate required to set up tracing. My example code was using .NET, which required some heavy lifting, using a DispatchProxy class to intercept method calls and inject the tracing…

How decorators can help keep OpenTelemetry tracing instrumentation DRY — .NET has definitely embraced OpenTelemetry in its recent releases. Its support for defining traces and spans using the built-in System.Diagnostics classes greatly simplifies the task of instrumenting code. My only nitpicky complaint about the .NET …

The dev stack is evolving. I asked Scott Hanselman, Juraci Paixã, and Ilai Fallach what's new in their developer toolbox. Here’s what I found out — What Is the Modern Developer Stack? I’ve been a developer in some form or another for over two decades now. At the risk of sounding like an old geezer, it was a very different experience developing back then… 👴 And I haven’t the slightest tinge of nostalgia.