Aug 22, 2024

Startup Presentation: Observability-driven development with OpenTelemetry

Adnan Rahić

Are passing tests masking silent failures in your microservices? Discover how observability-driven development with OpenTelemetry replaces unreliable mocks with real distributed traces to catch bugs before production.

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Bridging observability and testing with distributed tracing

Combining OpenTelemetry distributed tracing with trace-based testing helps technical teams catch microservice errors before they reach production.

#2 about 1 min

Troubleshooting asynchronous processes and silent failures

Correlating failing requests with distributed traces uncovers silent failures that slip past unit tests in asynchronous message queues.

#3 about 1 min

Identifying unmanaged external API failures via trace tests

Running trace-based HTTP tests that assert status codes enables teams to detect and isolate hidden errors in unmanaged external APIs.

#4 about 1 min

Implementing observability-driven development without data mocking

Observability-driven development replaces artificial mocking and black-box testing with tests built entirely upon actual system data.

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Maintaining code quality with open standard observability and pipelines

Alex Laubscher

Alex Laubscher +3 · WWC 2025

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Exploring advanced observability stacks and distributed infrastructure challenges

Pawel Piwosz · LIVE

1:19 min

Implementing tracing and metrics code with OpenTelemetry APIs

Ben Greenberg

Ben Greenberg · WWC 2022

18:59 min

Audience questions on agile integration and testing environments

Jemiah Sius

Jemiah Sius · WWC 2023

6:18 min

Implementing modern monitoring and observability in continuous development

Chris Riley · WWC 2021

3:12 min

Tracing agent telemetry with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger tools

Roberto Carratalá

Roberto Carratalá · WWC 2025

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Reinventing Testing Practices in the AI Era

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World Congress 2026 North America

One Repo, One Strategy: Scalable Full-Stack Testing in a Monorepo World

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World Congress 2026 North America

Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems

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