Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and CRDTs

Presenters Somtochi Onyekwere Source InfoQ podcast Level Up Your Distributed Systems: Why Fly.io is Betting on Speed with corrosion and CRDTs! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever found yourself staring at a loading spinner, wishing your global application data could just… be there? You’re not alone! The world of distributed systems is constantly evolving, balancing the need for data consistency with the ever-present demand for blazing-fast performance. Recently, Sini Pinchala, InfoQ’s lead editor for the AIML and data engineering community, sat down with Samtochi, a brilliant software engineer from Fly.io, to dive deep into these very challenges and unveil some exciting advancements. Their discussion revolved around Fly.io’s innovative open-source distributed system, corrosion, and its fascinating reliance on eventual consistency and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). Get ready to have your mind expanded! ✨ ...

January 12, 2026 · 7 min

Reverse-Engineering PromQL Usage: A Proxy’s Tale - Nicolas Takashi

Presenters Nicolas Takashi Source PromCon EU 2025 Okay, here’s a blog post synthesizing the provided ProAnalytics segment summary, aiming for a compelling and informative read: 🚀 Level Up Your Prometheus Observability with ProAnalytics – Stop Guessing, Start Knowing! 💡 Let’s be honest, managing a complex monitoring system built on Prometheus can feel like navigating a maze. You’re drowning in data – query logs, metrics, traces – but struggling to understand what’s really going on. You’re spending hours troubleshooting, guessing at bottlenecks, and hoping you’re not missing critical issues. That’s where ProAnalytics comes in. 🤖 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Why I Recommend Native Prometheus Instrumentation over OpenTelemetry - Julius Volz

Presenters Julius Volz Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 The OpenTelemetry Paradox: Why Prometheus Still Reigns Supreme (For Now) As a tech enthusiast, I’m always buzzing with excitement about the latest observability tools. The promise of unified metrics, logs, and traces – a single pane of glass for understanding your entire system – is incredibly appealing. But sometimes, the shiny new thing comes with a hefty price tag. That’s exactly what Julius, co-founder of Prometheus, explored in a compelling talk at Promcon, and it’s a conversation we need to be having. Let’s dive in. ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Everything you need to know about OpenMetrics 2.0! - György Krajcsovits, Bartłomiej Płotka

Presenters György Krajcsovits Bartłomiej Płotka Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Monitoring: OpenMetrics 2.0 is Here! 🚀 Let’s be honest, monitoring can be… complicated. 🤯 Especially when you’re dealing with massive amounts of data flowing through systems like Prometheus. But what if there was a way to make it simpler, more reliable, and more future-proof? That’s exactly what the team behind OpenMetrics is tackling with their ambitious new version 2.0! 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

OpenTelemetry developments in Prometheus over the last year - Arve Knudsen, Owen Williams

Presenters Arve Knudsen Owen Williams Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Monitoring: Prometheus Gets a Serious OpenTelemetry Boost 🚀 Monitoring your applications and infrastructure has just gotten a whole lot smarter – and more integrated. In this post, we’re diving deep into the latest developments in Prometheus, thanks to a fantastic presentation from Graphana Labs featuring Arve Knudsen and Owen Williams. They’ve been hard at work bridging the gap between Prometheus and the OpenTelemetry standard, and the results are seriously impressive. Let’s break down what’s new and what’s on the horizon. 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min