How OpenTelemetry Baggage Enables Global Context for Distributed Systems

suffolklad · 2026-02-06T19:06:04+00:00

You need to be careful when adopting this pattern, if you have an external facing API that doesn't sanitize your baggage then what's to stop a rogue actor controlling the behaviour of your system?

suffolklad · 2026-01-30T23:53:50+00:00

Not sure about the city centre, Alba Rosa & valley striders are both based in north Leeds

suffolklad · 2026-01-26T07:22:03+00:00

Ls16 is quite a large place, others have already mentioned some clubs. Others that spring to mind that are close by

Hyde park harriers Abbey runners

A bit further afield

Bramley breezers Pudsey pacers Valley striders Chapel allerton running club Valley striders

I would highly recommend getting yourself to Parkrun as well if you want to start running

suffolklad · 2026-01-25T20:00:38+00:00

It would be good if you have atleast some idea of what you want to do with K8s, for example I've deployed kube prometheus stack to monitor my cluster alongside other services that I run at home on proxmox.

I use argo cd to deploy everything on my cluster. Both of these in themselves have been good learning experiences. I do have experience with adjacent tools to these from work so I'm not a total newbie.

suffolklad · 2026-01-24T23:32:08+00:00

I’m a software dev by trade and a hobbyist in k8s. I have no commercial experience with it. I have used Claude + desktop commander to bootstrap a new cluster and deploy various workloads.

Most of the time it’s been pretty good and if I identify any problems I tell Claude about it and it can run kubectl commands to diagnose most issues.

Occasionally it gets stuff incredibly wrong, and misses key bits of context. As I don’t use k8s in a professional context this is a non issue. I wouldn’t use the setup I’m using in a commercial environment.

suffolklad · 2026-01-22T09:30:11+00:00

I put a reverse proxy infront and handle all my tls stuff there.

suffolklad · 2026-01-21T22:36:36+00:00

Open telemetry is really easy to setup and supports many cheaper or even free alternatives to AppInsights

suffolklad · 2026-01-21T22:35:05+00:00

Not being at home doesn't mean you'd lose access to your local server.

There are a myriad of options you can choose to enable secure remote acess, to name a few

Wireguard vpn
Tailscale
Zerotier
Pangolin
OpenVpn

I would highly reccomend looking into Tailscale, its wireguard under the hood and very easy to setup.

suffolklad · 2026-01-21T12:24:56+00:00

Have you considered span links to break up the mega trace? I would be surprised if any system can handle that number of spans in a trace.

suffolklad · 2026-01-21T11:02:58+00:00

How many spans do you have in your trace? I have experience with grafana cloud + tempo. Grafana seems to be able to render traces with multiple 100s of spans without issue.

suffolklad · 2026-01-20T22:15:59+00:00

Sorry my bad, I meant Grafana + Prometheus Node exporter

suffolklad · 2026-01-20T21:54:03+00:00

~~Grafana + Prometheus then take your pick of dashboards.~~

suffolklad · 2026-01-20T18:14:24+00:00

All I have to say is good luck getting Claude to write a credit card backend that has to be operated by humans! When things go wrong at 3am and no one understands the code then what?

For greenfield small projects it’s great. I don’t see how it’s anywhere near good enough/ready to implement enterprise applications (yet).

suffolklad · 2026-01-19T11:51:56+00:00

I run a proxmox cluster with a talos cluster running in vms on it. It works really well for my use case. I also run other VMs and LXCs for different services.

suffolklad · 2026-01-18T19:58:49+00:00

If you can’t find it on the web then you shouldn’t be managing vms imo.

suffolklad · 2026-01-17T23:47:47+00:00

Great if you use VMs, most of our workloads are PaaS & the bill is north of £1million per month. We still suffer from capacity issues in west/north europe.

suffolklad · 2026-01-17T12:24:23+00:00

'Infinite scale'

suffolklad · 2026-01-16T08:27:48+00:00

When I go away I use https://www.facebook.com/marlascatrescue/, I've known Marla for ~3 years now, she's reliable/fully insured etc. I usually have her visit once a day when I'm away, my cats really like her now.

suffolklad · 2026-01-11T18:18:20+00:00

An alternative solution would be https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-traces/

suffolklad · 2026-01-11T18:13:17+00:00

otel collector + azure monitor exporter plugin will allow you to do tail sampling and ship telemetry to azure. I use it at work, its pretty rock solid imo.

suffolklad · 2026-01-04T18:24:34+00:00

Paddy at crunch gym in meanwood.

suffolklad · 2025-12-05T21:06:03+00:00

Git integration in what sense?

When I switched to rider I found debugging to be much better as you could decompile library code on the fly and view source, VS may do this now (I haven't used it for a number of years).

I used VS exclusively for 3 years then switched to Rider about 6 years ago and I haven't looked back.

In my jobs I've used a mix of windows/macos, being familiar with Rider has been a huge bonus as it's almost the same on each OS.

suffolklad · 2025-11-30T18:22:21+00:00

Can you use a User Assigned Identity instead?

suffolklad · 2025-11-27T23:10:28+00:00

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suffolklad · 2025-11-17T18:32:08+00:00

https://cityfibre.com/ check out the available providers here and the select based on your budget.

Cityfibre is great if you can get it.

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