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Dan Gomez Blanco
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Principal Strategic Solutions Architect at New Relic, OpenTelemetry Governance Committee emeritus. Lefty, drummer, and photography dabbler.

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This illegal invasion of another country while its citizens sleep is a cynical act of American imperialism.

The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar.

Greens stand against this contempt of international law.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Venezuela latest: Trump says US has 'captured' President Maduro in strikes on country - latest
The US President says Maduro has been
www.bbc.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela.

This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources.

It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.
January 3, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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日本のOpenTelemetryユーザーの皆さん、ぜひご意見をお聞かせください!

2026年の計画を立てるにあたり、皆様のオブザーバビリティへの取り組みを真に支援するイベントやコンテンツを共に作って行きましょう!

ご意見はこちらへ:
OpenTelemetry 日本コミュニティサーベイ
本調査は、日本のOpenTelemetryコミュニティをより深く理解するために実施しています。皆様からのご意見は、全国の開発者、SRE、エンジニアのニーズに真に応えるイベント、コンテンツ、活動の企画に役立てます。所要時間は約5~10分です。ぜひご協力をお願いします。 注:本調査は日本在住の方を対象としています。 調査実施期間:<yyyy-mm-dd> から <yyyy-mm-dd> まで
buff.ly
December 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
sparrowsleeps.com/collections/...

This popped up on my Tidal discovery for some reason! Currently listening to their Offspring's "The Kids Aren't Alright" rendition. I'm not a parent, but I know what I would be listening to if I was one!
All Music
sparrowsleeps.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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🎁 Give yourself an early gift: register for OTel Unplugged EU!
Feb 2 in Brussels. Unconference = you control the agenda. Limited spots. Perfect if you're already planning FOSDEM attendance 🎯
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December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🌲 Who’s ready for a cozy holiday chat about the past, present, and future of #OpenTelemetry?

Join us to hear about early challenges, key improvements to the spec, tooling, and developer experience, and exciting developments we’re most looking forward to in 2026.

📍Sign-up here: ow.ly/WARi50XxQfo
Panel discussion: An OTel Carol: Past, present, and future of OpenTelemetry
In this holiday-themed panel, OpenTelemetry experts share the most exciting developments this year, including new projects, improvements, and what's in store for 2026.
ow.ly
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Spent my Thanksgiving playing with public incident data and seeing if it was under statistical control.

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/27/f...
Fun with incident data and statistical process control
Last year, I wrote a post called TTR: the out-of-control metric. In that post, I argued that the incident response process(in particular, the time-to-resolution metric for incidents) will never be …
surfingcomplexity.blog
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Good readout (and impressively fast postmortem) of Cloudflare’s incident. It hits all the usual signs of a painful P1 of this scale…

blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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The Governance Committee has published a new statement on the blog, outlining proposals around improving the user experience, stability, and release practices across the project.

We’d appreciate feedback from users and maintainers.
Evolving OpenTelemetry's Stabilization and Release Practices
Summary OpenTelemetry is, by any metric, one of the largest and most exciting projects in the cloud native space. Over the past five years, this community has come together to build one of the most…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Company-wide day off today, time to (finally) start editing photos from a recent trip! This is about 2/15 days... so much good stuff to go through

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November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Considering the travel disruption expected for folks travelling to Atlanta, here's an idea that #KubeCon NA could copy from KubeCon EU... Rotate countries in NA every other year! I mean, who doesn't like the sound of KubeCon Cancun?
November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Loving the thumbnail (randomly?) chosen for this recording from #KCD Edinburgh! "So, which signal should I use?" would've been a great title for this talk too, because that (plus giving logs the love they deserve) is what we tried to cover in less than 25 minutes 😄

#otel #opentelemetry
Dan Gomez Blanco | Robert Pająk - OpenTelemetry Signals: Using the Right Tool for the Right Purpose
YouTube video by Kubernetes Community Days UK
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November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Nominations close today! If you know anyone (truly anyone, doesn't have to be a project maintainer or code contributor) that has helped you in your #OTel journey, or that you think has helped the community in different ways, give them your appreciation via our Community Awards!
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The tail of a distribution is always interesting... like whoever decided to give The Witcher S04E05 a 10 on IMBD!
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Voting for the @opentelemetry.io Governance Committee elections is now open! If you're eligible, head to vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elect... and cast your vote! It takes 2 minutes, but make sure you go to end until you see this screen otherwise your vote doesn't count!

Power to the people! ✊
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposted by Dan Gomez Blanco
The second phase of the OpenTelemetry CI/CD special interest group (SIG) is approved and merged! 🎉
If you're interested in #cicd #observability #SemanticConventions #opentelemetry - join us!
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
@opentelemetry.io
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Want to recognise a contributor or say some nice words about someone that made your life easier, or that helped OpenTelemetry grow? Nominate them for the OpenTelemetry Community Awards! This could be anyone, inside or outside the OpenTelemetry project!
October 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Super excided about this. Come join us in Brussels!
🎤 OpenTelemetry Unplugged

We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee.

📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/LYKI9dl
OTel Unplugged EU 2026
A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future.
events.humanitix.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Don't take it from mainstream news or any government official, this is a short and clear explanation of the legal situation regarding @freedomflotilla.bsky.social by a Professor of International Law at the Australian National University.
Israel’s interception of the Gaza aid flotilla is a clear violation of international law
Flotilla organisers say the Israeli military boarded their ships in international waters, where they have the right to freedom of navigation.
theconversation.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Reposted by Dan Gomez Blanco
Join us in welcoming the newest members of the #OpenTelemetry Technical Committee! 🎉

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Announcing OpenTelemetry Technical Committee Election Results
The OpenTelemetry Technical Committee is delighted to announce two new elected members! Please join us in congratulating David Ashpole and Josh MacDonald! Both David and Josh are long-time…
opentelemetry.io
October 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
And then some of us grumble when we have to explain the value of observability over and over again... 😬
From the git community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the git community
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September 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Spain will not be participating in Eurovision 2026 if Israel is allowed to compete, the state broadcaster announced
Spain announces boycott of Eurovision unless Israel is withdrawn
www.thenational.scot
September 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Best part of preparing presentations? The memes, always the memes

#opentelemetry #otel #observability #context #correlation
September 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We all talk about high-quality telemetry, AI-assisted RCA, advanced tooling... but honestly, it's all meaningless without the foundational basis of system (and subsystem) boundaries, ownership, and responsibility.
September 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the downside, I have spent my Sunday drying my passports (yes, both, Spanish and British) very carefully after they went through the wash, learning about passport validity, and finding out that I cannot get any of them replaced in time for my trip to India and Bhutan in 9 days. On the upside...
September 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM