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Austin Parker on AI, Olly, & OTel

Austin Parker on AI, Olly, & OTel

Update: 2025-10-23
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In this RedMonk conversation, Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb and a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry project, chats AI, Olly, and OTel with Kate Holterhoff. They explore the implications of AI on SREs and observability practitioners, the development of the MCP server, and the challenges vendors face in adapting to these changes. The discussion also touches on the balance between speed and quality in feedback, the complexities introduced by software abstractions, and the future role of OpenTelemetry in the AI-driven observability space.


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Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/10/23/rmc-austin-parker/

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Austin Parker on AI, Olly, & OTel

Austin Parker on AI, Olly, & OTel