I made an observation the other day, that many open source repositories provide an AGENTS(dot)md, but not something equivalent for humans. I wrote about it, and came to the conclusion that, there is no need for HUMANS(dot)md
svrnm.com/blog/humans....
From the Norwegian Consumer Council: „The Enshittificator“ vimeo.com/1168468796?f... — make it shitty 😭
It looks like human-to-human key signing parties will soon come back into fashion.
If hexagons are the bestagons, are metrics the bestrics?
svrnm.com/blog/metrics...
A lab and a blog post about turning traces into helpful insights about your SQL queries: something I worked on for the last few weeks is finally published on the Causely blog and on GitHub, for you to use and copy:-)
See how Causely continuously builds an always-on service graph (services, infra, and data flows) and combines it with traces, metrics, and logs to pinpoint the exact regression, its blast radius, and the causal path — with clear, explainable reasoning in seconds.
Links to the Reports:
* 2025: www.cncf.io/wp-content/u...
* 2024: www.cncf.io/wp-content/u...
* 2023: www.cncf.io/reports/cncf...
* 2022: www.cncf.io/reports/cncf...
I also took a look back into previous reports, what has changed year over year:
* 2024 report: 39% in production & 23% evaluating
* 2023 report: 32% in production & 29% evaluating
* The 2022 report looked back 3 years, stating OTel was used or evaluated by 4% in 2020, 14% in 2021 and 20% in 2022
The latest Annual Cloud Native Survey by @cncf.io gave an update on adoption for projects, and of course I checked were the numbers for @opentelemetry.io : Close to 50% in production! This is an impressive result, I am really proud of what our community has accomplished! www.cncf.io/wp-content/u...
Hope to see you all at Unplugged (or FOSDEM?)
Can you explain what you mean by that to me as a non-native speaker? 😂
Join us in Brussels on Monday, February 2, 2026—the day after FOSDEM—for OTel Unplugged EU 2026, an unconference shaped by and for the OpenTelemetry community.
events.humanitix.com/otelunplugge...
Not sure why I was expecting a slide being added directly, when I clicked the Copilot button from within PowerPoint and asked it to add a slide based on the prompt I provided ...
🔥 Mark your calendars! OTel Unplugged EU 2026 is happening Feb 2 in Brussels (day after FOSDEM)
No slides, just real technical conversations with the #OpenTelemetry community. You pick the topics. Limited space!
Register: buff.ly/aaUyQsx
🔄 Please repost to help us reach the community!
The #OpenTelemetry project is deprecating the #Zipkin exporter specification in favor of Zipkin's OTLP ingestion support. Learn more about migrating in our latest blog post.
opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/de...
🦾 Meet agenticc, the llm-powered C compiler, that agentically compiles your C code into an AI-powered application! 🦿👇
github.com/svrnm/agenti...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn
Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304
"And if your OSS contributions do lead to your dream job, like they did for me, remember to balance the scales one last time. Pass on your knowledge to new contributors and especially to new tech writers. Pay it forward."
Tiffany Hrabusa at @writethedocs.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqry...
Dallas, you were awesome. 🤘 Thanks to everyone who came by the Causely booth at @grafana.bsky.social #ObservabilityCON On the Road yesterday! Great convos, great energy, and, of course, great swag. 🦈
If you use gentoo you can have new updates every day!!
What makes OTel Unplugged different? No fixed talks — you set the agenda.
➕ Attendee-driven breakouts
➕ Maintainer & end-user discussions
➕ End-of-day OpenTelemetry roadmap session
📍 Sparks Meeting (Brussels) | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026
🎟️ Register:
DevOps. SRE. Platform Engineering.
Same goals, different disciplines, but the nuances matter.
This post aims to clear things up, helping teams align on who owns what and how the pieces fit together 🧩
www.causely.ai/blog/sre-dev...
#kubecon #cloudnativecon job board is busy!
a photo taken from the side of myself, severin, stephen, and lelia outside the hookah-slash-sports bar in atlanta that we found after ditching the buildkite/honeycomb/pulumi party, all smiling for a photographer off-screen
the cisco ospo reunion we all wanted @auggie.dev @svrnm.com
Last call: OpenTelemetry Community Awards nominations close soon! If someone helped you ship, scale, or learn this year, nominate them now:
Shark loves sugar assimilated!
🎃 Happy Halloween from Causely 👻
In a world haunted by false positives and spurious alerts, one terrifying truth remains:
Correlation is futile.
Our favorite Shark-Of-9 knows it too: you can’t guess your way to reliability!
Stay spooky. Stay causal.
