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Understanding OpenTelemetry and Observability

# Understanding OpenTelemetry and Observability

By Spiros Xanthos

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June 18, 2021

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Observability is crucial to understanding and adapting your product and your data - and open source telemetry is increasingly important.

To go behind the data and understand where telemetry is going, Spiros Xanthos joins the Dev Interrupted podcast to talk about how data analysis and tracking are changing, and what is next for Splunk. Spiros is the Founder of Omnition and the current VP of Product Management, Observability, and IT at Splunk.

### Episode Highlights include:

* The [use of microservices](https://linearb.io/blog/the-software-times-they-are-a-changin/)
* Splunk's Omnition Acquisition
* OpenTelemetry - what's behind it, how to participate, what's next
* Splunk's problem solving, strategy, and future
* [Running a data-driven team](https://linearb.io/blog/data-driven-dev-team/)

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