👏Today is the day👏 Workers ✨automatic✨ tracing is now in open beta! ✅Enable in seconds – no code changes required 🔎View and query trace data directly in the Cloudflare dashboard 📦Export traces (and logs!) to any external destination with an OTel endpoint

This has been what I've been working on for nearly a year now, super excited to finally do the first release of Automatic Tracing. Starting today anyone with Observability enabled will automatically get traces generated for their Workers that are present in the Cloudflare dashboard and can be sent to third party observability providers. We've had internal teams and select customers using this for a while and they've been able to make good performance gains through the increased understanding of what's happening in their Worker. But, today's release is only the first of many. There are several things that we didn't have time to include in this first release like context propagation for distributed tracing, user-created spans, even span events, or even some CF bindings we didn't get to instrument. All of these gaps are on the tracing roadmap and will be released as they're ready, but in the meantime there's still a lot of useful data for those that have Workers in production.

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Listen, I'm all in for the messaging/strategy biopsy. Need to build a bigger tent; use economic populism as the tentpole; be less judgmental and exclusionary. But folks, he might not be lying about the round ups and political prosecutions. Job one is to get ready for that.

I'm finally trying to use an AI code assistant in anger (Cursor), and... I'm a little underwhelmed after all the hype? But I also suspect I might be "doing it wrong" Now soliciting guides / opinions on how to best use Cursor / Copilot / Zed AI

Yes. You will not get cheap nuclear reactors (or fusion reactors, for that matter) unless you build the same design over and over again. By @jlkzrck

I had just migrated from Pocket too 🫠 blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore…

We're reaching the inflection point.

Here with the kiddos. Am I going to bawl my eyes out? Y/Y

I had convinved myself that disaggregated storage is the way to go for OLTP, but now i am starting to convince myself that ”diskless” (object storage as the primary storage) is where disaggregated storage converges to (on cloud anyway). All we need is little bit cheaper writes on AWS S3 and others…

To all the amazing folks who followed me recently, please checkout The GeekNarrator podcast. Specially the modern databases playlist. We don’t shy away from going deep into each database. From high level arch to deep storage internals, you will find all kinds of discussions. Modern Databases youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

Now I know where a lot of my weekend is going 😄

Kyle Kingsbury (Jepsen) teaches a distributed systems course. I'm going to put this on my same list of "probably the best possible use of corporate budget" as David Beazley's Raft course. He's got new slots opening up for a mid-December course now.

Our P99CONF on SlateDB is up now! Check it out. It’s got a ton of info on the project. youtube.com/watch?v=8L_4kWhd…

I don’t know what I will do with myself once Spooky Lake Month on tiktok is over. I need my haunted hydrology

Why ScyllaDB’s Shard Per Core Architecture Matters from @ScyllaDB, by @c_a_dunlop scylladb.com/2024/10/21/why-…

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