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SRE & DevOpsDeep Dive August 9, 2026 4 min read

OpenTelemetry Tail Sampling: Making Trace Decisions After the Outcome Is Known

How tail sampling buffers complete traces, evaluates outcome-aware policies, controls memory, and preserves representative telemetry during failures.

#opentelemetry#tracing#sampling

LinuxHow-To July 11, 2026 6 min read

Tracing System Calls and Kernel Events with bpftrace

Using bpftrace's scripting language to observe live kernel behavior — syscalls, function calls, scheduler events — with lower overhead than older tools.

#ebpf#bpftrace#tracing

WindowsDeep Dive July 11, 2026 5 min read

Event Tracing for Windows (ETW): The Kernel's Built-In Instrumentation System

The high-performance, always-available kernel tracing infrastructure that nearly every serious Windows diagnostic and monitoring tool is actually built on.

#etw#tracing#diagnostics