Observability in 2026: OpenTelemetry, eBPF Auto-Instrumentation, and the Three Pillars Evolved
on Observability, Opentelemetry, Ebpf, Monitoring, Tracing, Metrics, Devops, Sre
on Observability, Opentelemetry, Ebpf, Monitoring, Tracing, Metrics, Devops, Sre
on Microservices, Database, Architecture, Distributed systems, Postgresql, Event sourcing
on Llm, Inference, Vllm, Tgi, Mlops, Production, Ai
on Gitops, Kubernetes, Argocd, Flux, Devops, Ci/cd, Platform engineering
on Ai, Llm, Prompt engineering, Machine learning, Productivity
In 2023, prompt engineering felt like casting spells. “Pretend you are a senior engineer…” “Think step by step…” “You will be tipped $200 for a good answer.” Some of these worked. Most were cargo cult. By 2026, we have actual empirical data on what moves the needle — and the picture is more nuanced than the discourse suggests.