From 4b0f10515cba81055e2570deb1ccedb0f1c47beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carter Socha <43380952+cartersocha@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:37:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 1.4 release and kubecon blog for demo (#2608)

Co-authored-by: Austin Parker <austin@ap2.io>
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diff --git a/content/en/blog/2023/demo-birthday.md b/content/en/blog/2023/demo-birthday.md
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+---
+title: The OpenTelemetry Demo Turns 1(.4)
+linkTitle: OTel Demo Updates
+date: 2023-04-18
+author: '[Carter Socha](https://github.com/cartersocha) (Lightstep)'
+---
+
+It's hard to believe as we prepare our 1.4.0 release but the
+[OpenTelemetry demo](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/demo/) is turning 1 year old
+and it's been 6 months since we declared general availability with our
+[1.0.0 release](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2022/announcing-opentelemetry-demo-release/).
+
+### Project Milestones
+
+The demo has achieved remarkable milestones in its first year, with more than
+**70 contributors, 20 official vendor forks, 780 Github stars, and 180K Docker
+pulls**. The project team has been hard at work adding new capabilities and
+improving on existing ones with more than _460 merged PRs, 5 re-written services
+in new languages, and 7 brand new components / services_.
+
+Time flies when you're stabilizing semantic conventions. But what's actually
+changed between our 1.0.0 and 1.4.0 releases? Quite a lot actually.
+
+### The Highlights
+
+- **2x build time improvements despite adding additional services**
+- _Support added for arm64 architectures (M1 and M2 Macs)_
+- **Async support using Kafka and the new Fraud Detection (Kotlin) / Accounting
+  (Go) services**
+- _Kubernetes manifest to enable Kubernetes deployment without using requiring
+  Helm_
+- **More out of the box dashboards like our
+  [Collector Data Flow Dashboard](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/demo/collector-data-flow-dashboard/)**
+- **A myriad of frontend bug fixes**
+- _Our first
+  [Connector](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/connector/README.md)
+  in the Collector to demonstrate how telemetry pipelines can be linked_
+- **New OTel SDKs like the Java logging SDK and JavaScript / Go Metric SDK**
+- _New manual metric instruments in the Ad, Currency, Product Catalog services_
+- **PHP no-code change auto-instrumentation**
+- _Browser and compute resource detectors that enrich our data with
+  infrastructure information_
+- **More
+  [feature flag scenarios](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/demo/feature-flags/)
+  like generating a failure for every 10th Ad shown**
+- _General stability improvements to fix service restarts_
+
+For detailed changes, check out our in depth
+[release notes](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/releases)
+or
+[changelog](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).
+
+Our contributors are essential to all of this and the project team can't thank
+them enough. New development is constantly ongoing as we add new capabilities
+and the community's tools evolve. If you'd like to help, check out our
+[contributing guidance](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+or join our
+[Slack channel](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C03B4CWV4DA).
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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+    "npm": "^9.6.4"
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 }
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