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Run an OpenTelemetry Collector locally in Docker

This is an experience report for my future reference (and yours). The OpenTelemetry Collector is useful for receiving trace data in whatever format and exporting it to the back-end of your choice for storage and querying. For instance, I wanted to receive traces over HTTP/JSON from this sneaky browser extensionLINK and send them to Honeycomb. …

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Develop in Docker: Node.js, Express, & PostgreSQL on Heroku

This post builds on the excellent tutorial from Tania Rascia: Create and Deploy a Node.js, Express, & PostgreSQL REST API. I want to build a little web app that can store some data! …without installing anything new on my computer. Here’s how to configure VSCode Remote Containers to do that. Installed on my machine: Docker …

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Honeycomb in Rails without hard-coding the API key

Today we hooked up Honeycomb to an app for the first time! It was easy and fun! Then we configured it so that we don’t have to commit our apikey. It’s a public repo. Anyone could grab our API key and send spurious events to our Honeycomb datasets, screwing up our information and costing us …

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