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Mike Goldsmith

Staff Software Engineer

Mike is an engineer with a lot of experience working on open source projects, including contributing to OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. Mike lives in Durham, UK with his wife and family (two kids, two cats and dog) and enjoys watching sports and playing guitar.

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January 11, 2022

What Is Auto-Instrumentation?

In the past, we’ve written about what instrumentation is and the insights it provides. Instrumenting your code generates telemetry that shows you how your system is performing, and whether your system is healthy. Like…

Instrumentation

Technical Deep Dives

July 21, 2020

Updates to the Java Beeline: Sweeter Than Ever Before

We’ve released some improvements to our Java Beeline library! Allow me to share all the interesting new features. Hot topics: Spring Boot Sleuth Starter, JDBC auto-instrumentation, Simplified Beeline Builder, W3C and AWS trace header propagation.

Connectors & Integrations

Instrumentation