Refinery - the Honeycomb Sampling Proxy Release Information For a detailed list of linked pull requests merged in each release, see CHANGELOG.md. For more readable information about recent changes, please see RELEASE_NOTES.md. Purpose Refinery is a tail-based sampling proxy and operates at the level…

Published inPostNL Engineering · 6 min read· Nov 10, 2023 -- The logistics processes at PostNL are powered by an extensive event-driven architecture. In the center of this landscape sits the Event Broker e-Commerce (EBE), which allows developers to autonomously register, discover, and consume the…

Published inPostNL Engineering · 16 min read· Nov 16, 2023 -- Welcome to the second post in the Serverless OpenTelemetry at scale series. In the first part we covered the need for observability and the arguments for choosing OpenTelemetry. In this article we will look at the way we generate and…

By Vijay Samuel (eBay) | Monday, December 19, 2022 Blog posts are not updated after publication. This post is more than a year old, so its content may be outdated, and some links may be invalid. Cross-verify any information before relying on it. eBay makes a crucial pivot to OpenTelemetry to better…

Over the years, GitHub engineers have developed many ways to observe how our systems behave. We mostly make use of statsd for metrics, the syslog format for plain text logs and OpenTracing for request traces. While we have somewhat standardized what we emit, we tend to solve the same problems over…