Engineer at a unicorn SaaS startup: comparing the number of Github PRs for two spikes of my maximum output (had to write a lot of production code for weeks) before and after AI shows 27% increase.
I think there are two separate perspectives. For developers Open Telemetry is a clear win - high-quality vendor agnostic instrumentation backed by a reputable orgs. I instrumented with traces many business critical repos at my company (major customer support SaaS) with OTEL in Ruby, Python, JS. Not once was I confused/blocked/distracted by the presence of logs/metrics in the spec. However, can’t say much from the observability vendor perspective trying to be fully compatible with OTEL spec including metrics/logs. Article mentions customers having issues with using tracing instrumentation - it would’ve been great to back this up with corresponding github issues explaining the problems. Based on the presented JS snippet (just my guess) maybe the issue is with async code where the “span.operation” span gets immediately closed w/o waiting for the doTheThing()? Yeah - that’s tricky in JS given its async primitives. We ended up just maintaining a global reference to the currently active span and patching some OTEL packages to respect that. FWIW Sentry JS instrumentation IS really good and practical. Would have been great if Sentry could donate/contribute/influence to OTEL JS SIG with specific improvements - would be a win-win. As much as I hate DataCanine pricing they did effectively donated their Ruby tracing instrumentation to OTEL which I think is one of the best ones out there.