Dan Gomez Blanco

📣 The 2026 Cloud Native Annual Survey is back, and we’d love to hear from you! Your responses will help The Linux Foundation (and OpenTelemetry) understand how the community uses cloud native technologies. ⏱️ The survey may take about 15 minutes to complete. 🔗 Take the survey: buff.ly/fI48Mq0

We are excited to announce the 2026 OTel GC election. Nominations are due by 2026-10-16 23:59 AoE. List of eligible candidates will be shared 2026-10-19. Voting will take place between 2026-10-26 12:00 UTC & 2026-10-28 end of day AoE. Results will be announced 2026-10-30. buff.ly/4BhGWKt

Why did OpenTelemetry win? I think just saying "vendor neutral" is not giving enough credit to the symbiosis between OTel and Platform Engineering that's making both thrive in the modern cloud native industry. Cloud, containers, OTel, AI... They all share one thing. newrelic.com/blog/observa...

Pro-tip: join the Google groups listed in the "Meeting Invites Group" column here and never miss an update! github.com/open-telemet...

20 years of InfoQ! 🎂 We're hearing from our community. Dan Gomez Blanco: Technology moves fast, but practitioner-driven spaces help engineers learn from real experiences, exchange practical knowledge, and stay connected to what works in the real world. Thanks, @dangb.me #InfoQ20 #QCon

Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky

🚀 We've just published the second @opentelemetry.io #Blueprint! This one provides strategic advice for teams aiming to ease adoption of observability best practices in K8s workloads via consistent, efficient, and reliable telemetry platforms. Have a read at opentelemetry.io/docs/guidanc...

Great article by @cijothomas.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing! In my career I've had to have this argument many times, with many teams. So, from experience, I also ask you not to wrap #OTel APIs (unless you really really need it)

Here's your friendly reminder to sign up and/or submit a CFP for Observability Summit EU. WHEN: October 5th, 2026 (same week as OSSummit EU) WHERE: Prague, Czechia CFP closes July 7th. Find out more: 👉

@opentelemetry is officially a CNCF graduated project! 🎓🎉 OpenTelemetry has become the trusted de facto observability standard helping teams gain better visibility across distributed systems. Congrats to this incredible community! Read more about the milestone here: https://bit.ly/4fvcHAb

#OpenTelemetry is a #CNCF graduated project From OpenCensus and OpenTracing to today, this project has been a community effort from the start. Thank you to everyone who contributed code, docs, specs, reviews, feedback, and end-user experiences. This milestone belongs to you. buff.ly/SSE3ct3

During the last @infoq.com Dev Summit in Munich Wayne Bell and I talked about the need for OpenTelemetry, what it means to run an observability platform as a product, and the hardest thing of all this cool techy stuff: having the right culture for it. Watch it here! www.infoq.com/presentation...

🗓️ Over a year in the making 📈 One of the fastest-growing projects in #OpenTelemetry Introducing the Ecosystem Explorer The Ecosystem Explorer helps you understand OTel before you start. We’re starting with Java, with plenty more to come. Got ideas? Come build with us. buff.ly/EAfFJZg

Great summary of how @skyscanner.net adopted #OpenTelemetry at scale! 60M requests/minute in that service mesh definitely puts things to the test

Sometimes, when I've had a bad day, I like reminding myself to "not be too harsh and the pursuit of perfection". Some wisdom from a vinyl installation tutorial I got for an old laptop, that lives permanently on my fridge door now.

Hey, no offence to the folks at #KubeCon that were wearing all the badges from past editions on their lanyard. It's fucking effort and one should be proud. But, I've rewatched Office Space not long ago and the only thing I could think was "we need to talk about your flair"

It's hard to believe who first thought sending messages on WhatsApp was a suitable form of communication for recruiters.

I have a joke about OTel, but folks don't always get the context

🚨 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is fast approaching! Will we see you there? Make sure to add #OpenTelemetry talks and events to your plans. We combed the event schedule so you don't have to!

On-premises data centers, legacy apps, industrial control systems. These are just some of the traditional environments presenting challenges to implementing modern observability. In our latest blog post, learn how to make formerly opaque systems observable with #OpenTelemetry. buff.ly/90xC2ME

This illegal invasion of another country while its citizens sleep is a cynical act of American imperialism. The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar. Greens stand against this contempt of international law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

日本のOpenTelemetryユーザーの皆さん、ぜひご意見をお聞かせください！ 2026年の計画を立てるにあたり、皆様のオブザーバビリティへの取り組みを真に支援するイベントやコンテンツを共に作って行きましょう！ ご意見はこちらへ：

sparrowsleeps.com/collections/... This popped up on my Tidal discovery for some reason! Currently listening to their Offspring's "The Kids Aren't Alright" rendition. I'm not a parent, but I know what I would be listening to if I was one!

🎁 Give yourself an early gift: register for OTel Unplugged EU! Feb 2 in Brussels. Unconference = you control the agenda. Limited spots. Perfect if you're already planning FOSDEM attendance 🎯 buff.ly/aaUyQsx Help us reach more people - repost! 🔄

🌲 Who’s ready for a cozy holiday chat about the past, present, and future of #OpenTelemetry? Join us to hear about early challenges, key improvements to the spec, tooling, and developer experience, and exciting developments we’re most looking forward to in 2026. 📍Sign-up here: ow.ly/WARi50XxQfo

Spent my Thanksgiving playing with public incident data and seeing if it was under statistical control. surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/27/f...

The Governance Committee has published a new statement on the blog, outlining proposals around improving the user experience, stability, and release practices across the project. We’d appreciate feedback from users and maintainers.

Company-wide day off today, time to (finally) start editing photos from a recent trip! This is about 2/15 days... so much good stuff to go through 500px.com/p/dan_gomezb...

Considering the travel disruption expected for folks travelling to Atlanta, here's an idea that #KubeCon NA could copy from KubeCon EU... Rotate countries in NA every other year! I mean, who doesn't like the sound of KubeCon Cancun?

Loving the thumbnail (randomly?) chosen for this recording from #KCD Edinburgh! "So, which signal should I use?" would've been a great title for this talk too, because that (plus giving logs the love they deserve) is what we tried to cover in less than 25 minutes 😄 #otel #opentelemetry

Nominations close today! If you know anyone (truly anyone, doesn't have to be a project maintainer or code contributor) that has helped you in your #OTel journey, or that you think has helped the community in different ways, give them your appreciation via our Community Awards!

The tail of a distribution is always interesting... like whoever decided to give The Witcher S04E05 a 10 on IMBD!

Voting for the @opentelemetry.io Governance Committee elections is now open! If you're eligible, head to vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elect... and cast your vote! It takes 2 minutes, but make sure you go to end until you see this screen otherwise your vote doesn't count! Power to the people! ✊

The second phase of the OpenTelemetry CI/CD special interest group (SIG) is approved and merged! 🎉 If you're interested in #cicd #observability #SemanticConventions #opentelemetry - join us! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @opentelemetry.io

Want to recognise a contributor or say some nice words about someone that made your life easier, or that helped OpenTelemetry grow? Nominate them for the OpenTelemetry Community Awards! This could be anyone, inside or outside the OpenTelemetry project!

Super excided about this. Come join us in Brussels!

Don't take it from mainstream news or any government official, this is a short and clear explanation of the legal situation regarding @freedomflotilla.bsky.social by a Professor of International Law at the Australian National University.

Join us in welcoming the newest members of the #OpenTelemetry Technical Committee! 🎉 buff.ly/9Ctgeit

And then some of us grumble when we have to explain the value of observability over and over again... 😬

Spain will not be participating in Eurovision 2026 if Israel is allowed to compete, the state broadcaster announced

Best part of preparing presentations? The memes, always the memes #opentelemetry #otel #observability #context #correlation