I am an ex Java developer. Enterprise Fizz Buzz is highly entertaining. That stupid masters thesis pretending to be a design book landed right an inflection point and ruined half a generation of developers.

What isn’t entertaining is using OpenTelemetry, which takes me right back to Java for over-engineering. Moving to OTEL from StatsD cost us about 3% CPU per core, which on 32 core machines is an entire CPU lost to telemetry. Or more accurately, an entire second CPU lost to telemetry. That is not right.

Prometheus doesn’t have these problems. And isn’t trying to fix quite as many problems I’ve never had.