OpenTelemetry Part 1: Sinatra

9 minute read

OpenTelemetry (aka OTel) is becoming the standard for distributed tracing. This is the first in a multi-part series where I will document my trials, tribulations, and successes along the road of using OTel to instrument multiple applications. The first few are all ruby applications and some that I hope to be able to do later are written in Java. My goal is to instrument the applications using one or more standards-compliant libraries and then send the spans to an OTel collector. The OTel collector will then send them on to one or more backends such as Jaeger, Lightstep, and/or Datadog. » Read more

  Gene Liverman         Aug. 07, 2020

Fixing powerline in homebrew’s vim

1 minute read

For the last few days I have been trying to figure out why, all of a sudden, powerline has stopped working in vim. Whenever I start vim I get this error: » Read more

  Gene Liverman         May. 12, 2020

Puppet Camping in place: East meets West

5 minute read

A recap of the first virtual Puppet Camp by an experienced camper. » Read more

  Gene Liverman         Apr. 28, 2020

Church and COVID-19

20 minute read

My church has been streaming our service for several years and has been live on a local FM station since before I became a member. I setup streaming initiall... » Read more

  Gene Liverman         Apr. 13, 2020

De-forking a Puppet Module

4 minute read

A couple of years ago, the team I’m on forked a Puppet module called “mrepo” that is used for creating and managing RPM-based repository mirrors. We recently... » Read more

  Gene Liverman         Feb. 26, 2020