Pavol Loffay

@ploffay

Software engineer working on Observability: OpenTelemetry, Jaegertracing and OpenTracing. In my free time I like to climb, ski, or ride steep slopes in the Alps

Switzerland
pavolloffay.github.io/website/
Joined July 2014
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 28

    Check out my blog post that summarizes the evolution of OSS distributed tracing since ~2015 . It talks about , , , , and !

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  2. Nov 28

    How is your Sunday. Here snow and biking :) ❄️🌨️

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  3. Nov 26

    I keep using vim shortcuts in google docs. Now I know why my writing performance in gdocs is so poor. ⌨️🙈

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  4. Nov 23

    This screenshot is from kspan by . The idea is to provide this functionality in the OTEL operator.

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  5. Nov 23

    Now operator can dynamically inject auto-instrumentation into workloads. What other functionality can we provide for users? Would you like to instrument K8s events and get a trace like on the screenshot below ?

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  6. Nov 22

    Check out my blog post on using OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation on . This approach significantly simplifies the instrumentation of workloads. 🚀🚀🚀 Give it a try and tell us how (if?) you like it :)

    Great new article by on auto-instrumentation with . If you use k8s, definitely checkout the OTel Operator.
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  7. Nov 19

    I wish maintainers of OSS projects would think more about project velocity and appreciate the effort contributors put into PRs. Nit picking and being strongly opinionated about details that do not matter, does not help anybody.

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    Nov 12

    We are looking for engineers to work on ! Great team and lots of open source involvement in the project being widely adopted across the industry. Join and 🚀 P.S: we have openings for DevRel roles too!

    I am currently looking for a number of engineering roles working full time on . Let me know if you are interested.
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  9. Nov 18

    It is context propagation problem in the first place.

    I can't stop thinking how we keep acting like distributed tracing is primarily a technological problem whereas it's an organizational problem.
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  10. Nov 17

    The work on simplifying the use of auto-instrumentation on continues. Now adding support for injecting more k8s resource attributes. Check it out !

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  11. Nov 11

    I have found my work-life balance. For each review, I submit one PR :)

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  12. Nov 7

    I have never liked autumn. It was always just waiting for next skiing season. I am changing mind, the colors are just wonderful.

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    Nov 6

    Jaeger 1.28.0 is released! 🎉 It includes a new feature to support in-memory adaptive sampling. Checkout the Release Notes: Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release. Enjoy!

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  14. Oct 25

    docker system prune -a Total reclaimed space: 62.71GB if you wonder why you might be running out of disk space

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  15. Oct 20

    Is using main.go as a file name with the main package implementation a trend? It's super confusing and not idiomatic. When I see main.go I think of the main package with main fuction.

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  16. Oct 16

    Btw the location is flexible, preferably Europe but it can be anywhere where Red Hat has an office.

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  17. Oct 14

    Would you like to work on and ? We have an opening in my team 🚀 Feel free to DM me directly📩

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  18. Retweeted
    Oct 2

    In a few years it will be hard to imagine enterprise software thats not opensource.

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  19. Retweeted
    Sep 24

    RIP TravisCI. A community-backed startup that commoditized CI/CD in the GitHub era, giving it free to open source, & playing a huge part in shaping the industry we find today. It was an incredible group of people who built that together. Still proud to be a

    Just had such a wonderful serendipitious vid chat with some ! 🤩 was such a special place to work and grow as an engineer, and as a person. An exceptional group of coworkers. 💜
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  20. Sep 25

    Disagree, it should be a pathologist.

    Ever wanted to be an archeologist? You are one as a software engineer.
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    Sep 16

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