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Unpacking observability and OpenTelemetry with Spiros Xanthos of Splunk
You can read more about Spiros on his LinkedIn or Twitter.
There is some good backstory on his first company, Log Insight, here. A rundown of the acquisition that led to Spiros joining Splunk is here. There are also some interesting details in Splunk's blog on the deal, which calls out Omnition as a "a stealth-mode SaaS company that is innovating in distributed tracing, improving monitoring across microservices applications."
If you enjoy the conversation and want to hear more, Spiros has done some interesting talks that are up on Youtube here.
Our lifeboat of the week goes to Willie Mentzel, who explains how to: Round Double to 1 decimal place in kotlin: from 0.044999 to 0.1.