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From zero to developer: my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry

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Talkat Open Source Monitoring Conference 2025 · 2025-11-18..11-20· [developer-experience, open-source]

speaker

name:Virginia Diana Todea
linkedin:diana-todea-b2a79968

resources

video:https://youtu.be/1ynHP_RZFDM
slides:none on file

summary

One-year journey from zero to developer: builds a proof of concept to replace a commercial APM with OpenTelemetry, forks the demo to add a VictoriaMetrics datasource, and spends eight months coauthoring the first OpenTelemetry exam (released 2025). Finds measurable application overhead and long rollout times, pushes issues that spawn an eBPF SIG, starts a Romanian localization SIG, and earns community recognition while planning code contributions.

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chapters (14)

  1. 0:00Introduction and journey
  2. 2:20Finding motivation to contribute
  3. 4:11First contribution to OpenTelemetry
  4. 6:41Challenges in OpenTelemetry adoption
  5. 9:57Frustration and staying engaged
  6. 11:00Becoming an individual contributor
  7. 13:10Localization contributions
  8. 15:19Starting Romanian OpenTelemetry group
  9. 16:26Community impact and feedback
  10. 18:34VictoriaMetrics and OpenTelemetry
  11. 20:20New OpenTelemetry initiatives
  12. 22:28Future contributions and advice
  13. 25:37Importance of user feedback
  14. 26:21Closing and resources

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