William David Louth
Systems Architect & Product Designer | Enterprise SaaS & Big Data Expert | Startup & Scaleup CTO | Observability | Cybersemiotics https://humainary.io
- Observability was supposed to bring clarity. Instead, it risks becoming the IT equivalent of a waste management cartel — collecting endless data, burying it out of sight, and billing handsomely for the privilege. #observability #otel #opentelemetry #o11y www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- "The observability crisis isn’t about missing data; rather, it’s about missing meaning." #observability #o11y www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- Modern observability suffers from an existential void, mistaking metric abundance for genuine understanding. Observability frameworks, particularly #OpenTelemetry, have inadvertently cemented a fundamental architectural inversion. #observability #o11y #monitoring www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- Europe needs to put tariffs on data and hit the US tech sector.
- #OpenTelemetry uses ‘signal’ to mean ‘stream of telemetry data’. But that’s like calling a weather report a ‘signal’. In semiotics, a signal isn’t the data—it’s the act of expressing something meaningful about a situation www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- We don’t need better metrics. We need better minds in the middle. We need observers, not exporters. We need assessments, not aggregations. We need stability and confidence, not latency and errors. #observability #o11y #opentelemetry 💩 www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- The @opentelemetry.io experiment is over. Time to sunset it. #observability #o11y www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- Why Observability Can’t Save Us #observability #o11y #situationalawareness www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- "OpenTelemetry’s deployment of terms like “signals” and “semantics” with casual imprecision creates a veneer of sophistication that masks profound conceptual weaknesses" #observability #o11y #opentelemetry #otel humainary.io/blog/the-fal...
- "Our current approach to observability is fundamentally backward—we're trying to solve tomorrow's problems with yesterday's thinking." #observability #o11y www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- "Labeling OpenTelemetry conventions as “Semantic Conventions” isn’t merely inaccurate; it actively undermines our ability to develop genuinely useful insights into complex systems." #observabilioty #o11y #opentelemetry #otel #cncf humainary.io/blog/the-fal...
- "The prevailing model of event-based computing oversimplifies the nature of events by treating them as objective, transmissible units...." #observability #o11y #events humainary.io/blog/the-obs...
- "It’s time to admit that our reverence for observability has become a comfortable excuse for inaction. We’ve built cathedrals for data collection while our systems burn." #observability #o11y #opentelemetry #grafana www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- "OpenTelemetry looks to have been designed by a sysadmin rather than a systems engineer whose core competency is understanding complexity, systemic interactions, and meaningful abstraction." #opentelemetry #otel #observability #o11y humainary.io/blog/why-obs...
- "We’ve built complicated systems for collecting, standardizing, and transmitting telemetry ... somewhere along the way, we conflated the means with the end. We’ve allowed data collection to become synonymous with understanding." #observability #o11y #opentelemetry humainary.io/blog/why-obs...
- In contrast to the challenges posed by fragmented telemetry, Serventis introduces semantic cohesion—signals that are purposeful, interpretable, and sequenced to convey meaning. #observability #otel humainary.io/blog/servent...
- Traditional #observability tells you what happened. Serventis moves toward situational awareness—a system’s ability to... humainary.io/blog/servent...
- What if simplicity isn’t about wielding a machete to prune the excess, but about constructing a lighthouse whose beam remains clear and steadfast, piercing through any fog? www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- Current #observability approaches, such as #OpenTelemetry, are shackled by fundamental limitations: - Data Without Context - Volume Without Meaning - Separation Without Integration - Collection Without Interpretation humainary.io/blog/servent...
- "The Narrative Collapse: As systems scaled, however, our storytelling capabilities didn’t keep pace. Logs became noise. Metrics became disembodied. Events became wider..." #observability #o11y #sre #devops #innovation www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- "The prevailing model of event-based computing oversimplifies the nature of events by treating them as objective, transmissible units..." #observability #opentelemetry #o11y #semantics humainary.io/blog/the-obs...
- Our modern #observability tools still rely on “fat” wide events—giant, bloated records where every conceivable detail is crammed into a single record. humainary.io/blog/why-obs...
- Why Observability Needed a Systems Engineer #observability #o11y #logging #opentelemetry www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- "The conflation of what should be a source-oriented message with an observer-oriented signal has created significant inefficiencies in observability and event-driven systems. Messages and signals serve fundamentally different purposes" #observability #o11y #opentelemetry humainary.io/blog/the-obs...
- The Observer’s Construct: Rethinking Events in Systems Design What we call an event is more a message or payload, enveloping captured occurrence data. #observability #o11y #opentelemetry #logging www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- True observability requires a semiotic approach—understanding signs, signals, and subjects within a meaningful interpretive framework. #observability #o11y #monitoring humainary.io/blog/the-fal...
- What @opentelemetry.io grandly calls “semantics” is nothing more than standardized naming conventions for fields. #observability #o11y #devops #sre humainary.io/blog/the-fal...
- There is a lot of noise coming from the likes of @honeycomb.io and @dash0.com about "semantics" (bloated event payloads), advanced filtering, and "native" telemetry, but it is all noise and a symptom of the current failing data-centric approach. #observability #o11y www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- "We often overlook that the instruments themselves define the reality we perceive. They don’t merely passively reflect what’s happening but actively shape how observers—whether systems or humans—understand and interact with their environment." #observability #o11y www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
- Our observability tools are working against the very way our brains make sense of the world… #observability www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
