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I've not used otel for anything not greenfield, but I just wanted to say > felt like replacing a tire on a moving vehicle. Some people do this as a joke / dar
by dmoy 2y ago
I've not used otel for anything not greenfield, but I just wanted to say
> felt like replacing a tire on a moving vehicle.
Some people do this as a joke / dare. I mean literally replacing a car tire on a moving vehicle.
You Saudi drift up onto one side, and have people climb out of the side in the air, and then swap the tire while the car is driving on two wheels.
It's pretty insane stuff: https://youtu.be/Str7m8xV7W8?si=KkjBh6OvFoD0HGoh https://youtu.be/Str7m8xV7W8?si=KkjBh6OvFoD0HGoh
- hinkley 2y agoThat was the image I had in my head. My whole career I’ve been watching people on greenfield projects looking down on devs on already successful products for not using some tool they’ve discovered, missing the fact that their tool only functions if you build your whole product around the exact mental model of the tool (green field). Wisdom is learning to watch for people obviously working on brownfield projects espousing a tool. Like moving from VMs to Docker. Ansible to Kubernetes (maybe not the best example). They can have a faster adoption cycle and more staying power.
- PeterCorless 2y agoSaS Institute used that exact same analogy & even this video in their talk about implementing ScyllaDB back in 2020 (check out 0:35 in the video): https://www.scylladb.com/2020/05/28/sas-institute-changing-all-four-tires-while-driving-an-adtech-engine-at-full-speed/ https://www.scylladb.com/2020/05/28/sas-institute-changing-a... Seems like moving to OTel might even be a bit more complex for some brownfield folks.