OpenTelemetry for Databases: Empowering DevOps through sqlcommenter with Nimesh Bhagat

Optimizing or debugging database calls has to become as easy as optimizing your application code based on logs, metrics or traces your observability platform provides to developers. It has to be doable by the development and DevOps teams who are becoming more end-2-end responsible which includes new database services that are running in some managed cloud service.In this episode we hear from Nimesh Bhagat, Product Manager at Google, how modern database observability supports development and DevOps teams to better understand, optimize and operate their end-2-end service flow. A great project Nimesh has been working on is sqlcommenter which uses OpenTelemetry to continue distributed traces started in the application into the internals of the database engine.If you want to learn more check out the sqlcommenter documentation or the Google Podcast on Cloud SQL Insights.Show LinksNimesh on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nimesh-bhagat-b062354/SQLCommenterhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/sqlcommenter-merges-with-opentelemetrySQLCommenter Documentationhttps://google.github.io/sqlcommenter/Google Podcast on Cloud SQL Insightshttps://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-247-cloud-sql-insights-with-nimesh-bhagat/

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The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations.Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance, ranging from common performance problems for specific technology platforms to best practices in development, testing, deploying and monitoring software performance and user experience. Be prepared to learn a lot about metrics.Andi & Brian both work at Dynatrace, where they get to witness more real world customer performance issues than they can TPS report at.