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Telemetry Talks ep 4: Retroactive sampling and OpenTelemetry

This episode of Telemetry Talks explores the evolution of an OTLP/gRPC tracing pipeline for VictoriaTraces within OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics, including a shift from standard gRPC-Go to a simplified HTTP/2-based implementation to reduce complexity and improve flexibility. Together with the our guest, Jiekun, we revisited the VictoriaMetrics KubeCon talk ideas on tail-based and retroactive sampling — and their impact on the broader OpenTelemetry community.

Resolve Webinar: Introducing AgentLab: The Foundation of the Autonomous Service Desk

Most service desks still operate across fragmented systems. A single ticket can touch 4–7 tools, often more, slowing resolution and increasing cost. Copilots suggest. Traditional automation executes fixed paths. Neither closes the loop. AgentLab changes that. In this webinar, we introduce a new model built on agentic AI and orchestration. One where AI agents don’t just assist. They act, adapt, and resolve.

DORA Metrics in the AI Era: Why Deployment Isn't Faster

DORA metrics in the AI era reveal a paradox: PR volume is climbing, but deployment frequency is staying flat. In this talk, GitKraken's Director of Product Jeff Schinella breaks down why AI-accelerated code generation is creating a review bottleneck that your DORA metrics can't fully explain on their own. Jeff walks through how PR metrics (cycle time, first response time, code churn, and PR size) serve as the leading indicators behind your DORA data. If your deployment frequency is flat while PR counts go up, the bottleneck isn't your devs. It's your review capacity.

Detect, Communicate, Resolve: Checkly's Agentic Workflow End-to-End

Coding agents are the fastest-growing audience for the Checkly CLI, and we're doubling down on them. In this session, Stefan hands Claude a real e-commerce app, lets it set up monitoring with `npx checkly init`, generate Playwright tests through MCP, and walk an actual alert end-to-end with Rocky AI in the loop.

#056 - Cloud Contradictions and Cautionary Tales with Corey Quinn (The Duckbill Group)

In this episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, Itiel sits down with the internet's favorite cloud contrarian, Corey Quinn of the Duckbill Group. Corey shares his unconventional career path as a "cautionary tale," explaining why his knack for fixing horrifying AWS bills makes him a terrible employee, and why he absolutely refuses to touch Kubernetes in production.