From Log Chaos To Clarity With OpenTelemetry
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At Tech Internals Conf 2024 in Cyprus, Alexey Korepov showed how OpenTelemetry can bring order to distributed chaos. Today, we’re sharing his article:
Debugging decoupled applications with microservices using OpenTelemetry
Why is OpenTelemetry the answer — and how did it bring order to distributed chaos?Look, once, a single log file was enough.
Today? Dozens of services in five languages. APIs that crash. Bugs that vanish between systems.
Debugging turns into a guessing game.
In this article, you'll hear a real story of scaling a simple logistics app into a 20-component monster—and surviving. Learn how adding OpenTelemetry gave the team visibility, control, and peace of mind. No vendor lock-in. No full rewrites. Just answers.
Read the article
This week, we’re spotlighting three speakers, each bringing something real, deep, and very senior-dev-worthy.
Ivan Savu — Co-Founder @ VeloxDB (Serbia)
Talk: Achieving scalability with custom locks
Ivan builds high-performance database systems for energy, e-commerce, and finance — industries that don’t tolerate downtime or bad architecture. His talk is a tour through modern memory architecture, the CPU/Memory gap, cache line contention, and how these low-level phenomena kill scalability if you’re not careful.
You’ll learn how VeloxDB engineers use custom lock strategies, like their 0-bit spin lock, to make even fine-grained locking cheap and effective. It’s system design without illusions, and it’s beautiful.
Warren Parad — CTO @ Authress (Switzerland)
Talk: What the @#!? is Auth
You think you understand authentication… until you need to fix it for real. Warren dives into auth flows, access tokens, WebAuthn, scopes, JWTs with EdDSA signatures, and a dozen things that go wrong in real systems. He’s not here to sell you a tool — he’s here to show you what actually works when you need both security and UX.
From token revocation strategies to silent authentication that doesn't suck — this talk will help you rebuild your auth system without blowing it up.
Vladislav Shpilevoy — Senior Developer @ VirtualMinds (Germany)
Talk: An Efficient Git Workflow For High-Stakes Projects
We’ve all seen Git used wrong. Vladislav shows how Git, when taken seriously, becomes a force multiplier for fast, safe, maintainable development. This isn’t a “how to Git rebase” session — it’s a senior engineer’s guide to workflow architecture.
You’ll hear real-world examples of using multi-commit patchsets, atomic commits, and structured history to accelerate development in mission-critical projects. Also: how to convince teams to ditch merge commits with receipts.
