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Infra, Go, Distributed systems & Kernel stuff.

Stuff I think (I don’t) know.

A blog on some of the most interesting things I learn and/or unlearn. My new experiences. Old ones. Bad habits. Some good.

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A conversation about spans, traces, and observability in general

An engineering reflection on spans, trace context, propagation, semantic conventions, business telemetry, and why useful observability does not require exposing sensitive customer data.

Observability Should Be Part of How We Build Software, Not Something We Add Later

An engineering reflection on OpenTelemetry, spans, and why telemetry design belongs in the code — not in a post-launch dashboard project.

Lifting the Hood on Trace Propagation in OpenTelemetry

How W3C Trace Context, traceparent, tracestate, and OpenTelemetry propagators connect distributed traces across services.

How to Configure a Network Block Device on a Debian-Based System

Configure NBD on Debian with loopback client and server — export disks, partition, and mount ext3.

Database migrations in Golang

Implementing migrations in Go the sane way

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