backend engineering

A new OpenTelemetry blog post argues that software products should be designed from the ground up to be OTel-native, exporting telemetry to any observability stack rather than locking users into vendor-specific agents or formats. The piece frames OpenTelemetry as the default instrumentation layer for logs, metrics and traces, letting teams swap backends freely. It is drawing attention among developers and platform engineers debating vendor lock-in in observability tooling.