Production Go Service Patterns

A practical reading order. Start with Part 1; each published part builds on the previous one.

3 published parts

Reading order

Part 1 of 3

OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time with otelc

OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation v1 lets you swap go build for otelc go build and get traces, metrics, and log correlation with zero source changes. No wrappers, no SDK init, no agent at startup. A SIG formed by Alibaba and Datadog, with maintainers from Cabify. Vendor-neutral, stable.

Go & concurrency 14 min

Part 2 of 3

24 Jul №35

Three Ways to Instrument Go with OpenTelemetry

Go now has three complementary paths to OpenTelemetry telemetry:

Go & concurrency 6 min

Part 3 of 3

31 Jul №39

Building a Custom OpenTelemetry Collector in Go

After compile-time instrumentation with otelc and the three instrumentation paths comparison, you have spans and metrics leaving your service. The next decision is what happens to that telemetry before it reaches your backend.

Go & concurrency 7 min