The Future is Bright: Open Source, OpenTelemetry and Observability with Buddy Brewer

Jonan Scheffler interviews New Relic’s own Buddy Brewer about the importance of monitoring and performance and how it’s an opportunity to take a wide lens to look at all of the different ways that software gets used by people every day.

Jonan and Buddy also talk about how if we really want to make great software, we really need to focus on end-user experience, and that one of the things that is incredibly important today that we weren’t focusing on ten years ago, is the importance of interoperability between tools as toolmakers, community project managers, and open-source project maintainers. We should be oriented around how we help the people who are actually creating experiences compose tools together in ways that help people get their jobs done better.

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