I worked with an amazing technical content creator named Ania Kubów to bring this one-hour video course to life. This course teaches how to use OpenTelemetry, including microservices, observability, tracing, and more. I collaborated with to create a beginner-friendly resource for anyone to begin instrumenting apps with OpenTelemetry. It wasn't until I began instrumenting my own apps using the OpenTelemetry documentation that I realized how easy it was to get started. I learned more about OpenTelemetry, a popular open source tool for monitoring your apps and websites, but it was intimidating because I couldn't find any introductory tutorials online guiding me through the process of instrumentation. As I began learning about why observability was valuable for developers, I started digging deeper into the open source ecosystem and learning what makes it possible for modern apps to maintain uptime.

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