Outreachy - 2024 May - Prepare an internship guide with all the information applicants need to know

[jpkrohling]

I believe we have all the pieces scattered around, and I imagine two guides being made, composed basically of links to different resources. The guides would be:

• A generic one, which can be reused in the future for new contributors to the project
• One specific to this internship

While we don't have that, here are a set of resources to get started:

• Check-out the main documentation for OTel: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/
• Play with the OTel Demo to have practical experience with OTel: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/demo/
• Get familiar with the OTel spec: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/
• Log Bridge API: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/logs/bridge-api/

For all participants of this internship, I kindly ask you to please, record here your learnings and the other resources you consumed (videos, tutorials, experiments, ...)

[Freedisch]

@jpkrohling, I'm Thibaut Batale Final Year CS student. I'm applying for the upcoming term of the Outreachy Program. I have been selected to move to the next contribution. I have strong experience with Golang, I would like to learn more about the project Implementing one logging bridge per Language (Swift, Go, PHP, C++, Ruby, Erlang). Regarding the contribution phase, is there any specific issue applicants need to work on, or we can go ahead and start working on available issues.

[Daniel-Ojo-Williams]

Hello @jpkrohling, My name is Daniel Ojo-Williams, i got into the outreach contribution phase, i have experience with backend development using NodeJs and just started Go of recent, really willing to dig into this. How do we get started, i tried but could not get into the slack channel, it says i do not have an account on this slack channel.

[Enzujp]

@jpkrohling Hello! I am Okache Johnpaul, I'm with Outreachy's May Cohort and I'm looking forward to getting started on this!
Currently familiarizing myself with with the docs and OTel Demo. This would be fun.

[harshey1103]

Hi @jpkrohling ! I am Harshit Goyal, an outreachy applicant. I'm really looking forward to contributing to this project. I have a decent background in coding, and I did an internship where I was roduced to open source.

[mercybassey]

Hello @jpkrohling I am Mercy Bassey, an outreachy applicant. I am highly interested in distributed tracing and want to contribute to this project.

[Anu8587]

Hi @jpkrohling I am Anushka Singh, outreachy applicant I am a first year student and it's my first time in open source I have a decent knowledge of golang, and I am ready to contribute and learn from you and my fellow applicants as well in this phase.

[Shedrack-Sunday]

Hello @jpkrohling I'm Shedrack Sunday, a January 2024 graduate of Telecommunication engineering . I'm a contributor for the May 2024 Outreachy internship. I'm comfortable with Golang, C++, Ruby and python. I'll do well to record my learnings, resources used and experiments performed, to help the community have more rich resource 🤗

[Swazi28]

Hello all, my name is Nomaswazi Nkosi, and I am thrilled to contribute to this project

[Dehbeie]

Hey @jpkrohling, I am Onyealilam Deborah. Hope you're doing well. I wanted to reach out to you because I'm really interested in contributing to CNCF through Outreachy. I would greatly appreciate your guidance on how to get started and which projects I should focus on. Your expertise and advice would be incredibly valuable to me. Thank you so much in advance for your support!

[Cvr421]

Hello @jpkrohling i am Chandravijay Rai from india an outreachy applicant . I work as the MERN full stack developer and DevOps Enthusiast . I love to be the part of this community and Looking forward to make meaningful contribution.

[Kimbohlovette]

Hello guys. I'm from Cameroon, an outreachy applicant.
This is what I have been learning since yesterday 👇
How to land an outreachy internship by Juraci Paixão Kröhling
Link: https://medium.com/@jpkroehling/how-to-land-an-outreachy-internship-31a0b5d48633

What is Telemetry
Link: https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/telemetry

What is Open Telemetry
Link: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/what-is-opentelemetry/

Otel is vendor-agnostic
A vendor-agnostic solution could work with any brand of hardware or software as long as it meets the required functionalities.

Otel is Tool-agnostic: This describes something that is not dependent on a specific software program or tool. It can function effectively regardless of the chosen tool, as long as it provides the necessary capabilities.

Open telemetry vision, mission and values
Link: https://opentelemetry.io/community/mission/

Getting started with Open Telemetry (Golang)
Instrumenting a simple golang application manually
Link: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/go/getting-started/
Sample output 👇

Golang Microservices: Observability using OpenTelemetry
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytCFQJ43DE

[olubunday]

hello @jpkrohling I am Akinlowo Olumide from Nigeria. I would like to make contributions to this CNCF Open Telemetry project. I have not been able to sign in to the Slack channel, please, is there anything that I need to do? I would really love to know what is the next thing to do. Thank you.

[NikitaSen1205]

Hi @jpkrohling and the fellow contributors. I am Nikita Sen. I've had the pleasure of utilizing OpenTelemetry in a real-world industrial project, and now believe that contributing to CNCF's Otel project will best justify the open source opportunity provided to me by Outreachy. However, I am also unfortunately facing difficulty signing in to the Slack channel, so seeking help for the same. Thanks!

[LeonardAzah]

Hi @NikitaSen1205, I had a similar issue. Here's what I did: I visited the URL https://slack.cncf.io/ and made a request. An invitation was sent to me via email, and I joined the Slack community. Then, I clicked on the link provided on the Outreachy site to join the channel.

[Zhu-VISH]

Hi @jpkrohling I am Vaishnavi Singh, and I am reaching out to express my sincere enthusiasm for the opportunity to contribute to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an Outreachy applicant. I am really grateful to all the support and help you have offered. Thanks a lot!

[anshikavashistha]

I am Anshika Vashistha, an outreachy applicant and would love to contribute to the project

[Dev-JoyA]

Uploading JoyA recording.mp4…

@jpkrohling @yurishkuro kindly see recordings of my learning so far, I have been able to extensively read about openTelementary, i have used blogs and youtube videos amongst other materials to deeply understand the concept expecially with the Golang API and SDK's

[Preethigrace-7]

Hii @jpkrohling I love to contribute to this, happy to be here as a outreachy intern applicant.

[Dev-JoyA]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wiKTfRdbdNjw6UCk8yrKtezd6eWEX0jv/view?usp=drive_link

@jpkrohling @yurishkuro kindly see recordings of my learning so far, I have been able to extensively read about openTelementary, i have used blogs and youtube videos amongst other materials to deeply understand the concept expecially with the Golang API and SDK's

[AkhigbeEromo]

@jpkrohling @yurishkuro In the past few days I have learnt a lot about OpenTelemetry.
In addition to the resources listed here, I was able to get my hands on others, links provided below:

Youtube Video (How to Collect Logs with OpenTelemetry) - https://youtu.be/lRggiTbvUsc?si=ydg1qCS2637n2pRT
Youtube Video (OpenTelemetry Deep dive with Go)- https://youtu.be/yQpyIrdxmQc?si=jTWSNNIKsoBtLlWQ
Youtube Video (OpenTelemetry Course - Understand Software Performance)- https://youtu.be/r8UvWSX3KA8?si=Kn1gn2tuU33L8zgf
Youtube Video (Observability explained: How is monitoring different than observability?)- https://youtu.be/rL33J-X9_u0?si=hZklnn23bW5WZFe4
Youtube Video (The painful simplicity of context propagation in Go)- https://youtu.be/g4ShnfmHTs4?si=phtkZAPO5QcmV998
Youtube Video (Efficient Debugging and Logging with OpenTelemetry in Go - Konstantin Ostrovsky)- https://youtu.be/5rjTdA6BM1E?si=2TIewxym-9sNFzxC

[AkhigbeEromo]

I also just published an article on medium describing some of the concepts I have been able to grasp.

Here is a link to the article: https://medium.com/@akhigbeeromo/opentelemetry-deep-dive-part-1-6ebbd2362bd3

[NikitaSen1205]

Hi everyone, I'm Nikita Sen!

The strong foundation as Java Developer, and familiarity with C++ and Go have been instrumental in my current deep dive into Go. Having only integrated logging and monitoring tools and libraries so far, contributing to the implementation of the logging capability (via log bridge API) is extremely intriguing and allows for a deeper understanding.

I've gone through the official OpenTelemetry doc thoroughly, hence I would like to take the opportunity of my introduction to appreciate the clear and comprehensive official documentation from OpenTelemetry :) . I was also able to easily set up & run the OpenTelemetry Demo in Docker.

To share my learnings and hopefully benefit others, I'm creating a series of recordings on my WordPress account that I'll be sharing here in following parts-

1. Otel's Basic Overview: includes glossary and fundamental concepts of OpenTelemetry., Monitoring, and Obserability.
2. Deep Dive into Logs & Log Bridge: understanding the project.
3. Logging with OpenTelemetry in Go
4. Understanding Go: Solid foundation for those new to the Go programming language- if time permits

PFA the general resources used by me besides the doc to gain understanding.

1. https://sachin4403.medium.com/observability-using-open-telemetry-in-go-application-6878d6e56a54
2. https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/instrumentation/code-based/
3. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/tree/main/instrumentation/
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRggiTbvUsc
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1KZwfLr2PQ
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1KZwfLr2PQ - for anyone who prefers watching video than reading the doc

Specific learning resources will be shared in the Wordpress recording article

[Kimbohlovette]

Hello @jpkrohling
I've gone through the Open Telemetry docs from the concepts through the demo down to the specs. I now have a good understanding of the structure of otel. I would like to start contributing now. Please could you assign me this one?

[ginachioma]

Hello everyone

@jpkrohling @yurishkuro i have gone through the telemetry documentation , demo as well as the specification and detailed my understanding and finding of OTEL in the link below

link; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DCPVhTqLXPbyArUIagTigsKHo5DDjZVZmG1ic3G2AlE/edit?usp=drive_link

[singhpriti]

Hello everyone!

My name is Priti Singh, and I'm an iOS developer with a strong foundation in C++ data structures. I've recently embarked on a journey to learn Go programming through resources like FreeCodeCamp, further expanding my skill set.
Here is the link to the Golang Course with Projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un6ZyFkqFKo

Despite my proficiency in iOS development, I'm relatively new to the open-source world. However, I'm eager to make meaningful contributions and engage with the vibrant open-source community.

[Kimbohlovette]

Hello everyone!

My name is Priti Singh, and I'm an iOS developer with a strong foundation in C++ data structures. I've recently embarked on a journey to learn Go programming through resources like FreeCodeCamp, further expanding my skill set. Here is the link to the Golang Course with Projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un6ZyFkqFKo

Despite my proficiency in iOS development, I'm relatively new to the open-source world. However, I'm eager to make meaningful contributions and engage with the vibrant open-source community.

You're welcome here @singhpriti
Just go through the resource links above and get confortable with otel docs and setup and run demos

[AkhigbeEromo]

@jpkrohling @yurishkuro In the past few days I have learnt a lot about OpenTelemetry. In addition to the resources listed here, I was able to get my hands on others, links provided below:

Youtube Video (How to Collect Logs with OpenTelemetry) - https://youtu.be/lRggiTbvUsc?si=ydg1qCS2637n2pRT Youtube Video (OpenTelemetry Deep dive with Go)- https://youtu.be/yQpyIrdxmQc?si=jTWSNNIKsoBtLlWQ Youtube Video (OpenTelemetry Course - Understand Software Performance)- https://youtu.be/r8UvWSX3KA8?si=Kn1gn2tuU33L8zgf Youtube Video (Observability explained: How is monitoring different than observability?)- https://youtu.be/rL33J-X9_u0?si=hZklnn23bW5WZFe4 Youtube Video (The painful simplicity of context propagation in Go)- https://youtu.be/g4ShnfmHTs4?si=phtkZAPO5QcmV998 Youtube Video (Efficient Debugging and Logging with OpenTelemetry in Go - Konstantin Ostrovsky)- https://youtu.be/5rjTdA6BM1E?si=2TIewxym-9sNFzxC

After doing some research on some log packages in Golang, i decided to write an article on the slog package. @jpkrohling
Here is the link to the article: https://medium.com/@akhigbeeromo/using-the-slog-package-in-golang-e1f167a7c928

[Cvr421]

Hello everyone
Here is my Contribution to OpenTelemetry
open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io#4174

This is my Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8UvWSX3KA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRggiTbvUsc&t=10s
https://middleware.io/blog/opentelemetry-logs/

[jpkrohling]

Thank you all for your help, this collection of resources will help future applicants and contributors to the OTel project!