observability

After years of building observability tools and working with various languages, I believe I am i the position to express a strong opinion: Zig is the most suited language for building Observability systems. This is a bold claim, especially in a field dominated mostly by Go (hello OpenTelemetry) and more recently Rust. But after exploring Zig’s design philosophy and capabilities, I have developed a sense of confidence that Zig is the right language and ecosystem for me to build observability tools. [Read More]

I mentioned sustainable performance in a previous post, telling that it “could be a blog post on its own”, and after noting interest on the matter from people I highly respect, I decided to write this post. What is sustainable performance? If you worked as a software engineer for some time, you must have faced at least once the question: “is my code running at its full potential?”. So many intricacies can arise from such a simple question, especially in a highly dynamic industry such as Information Technology. [Read More]