I wish I'd included it in the piece, I'll maybe write a follow up: right now I don't think it makes sense to implement queueing just for your observability data

I wish I'd included it in the piece, I'll maybe write a follow up: right now I don't think it makes sense to implement queueing just for your observability data. But if the queue is already there, it's worth considering handling OTLP data with a Kafka queue.