OTel Drops
Your weekly OpenTelemetry digest.
AI-hosted, human-curated. Every week, Bianca and Florian break down the latest from the OpenTelemetry community — releases, spec changes, real discussions — all in ~20 minutes, zero fluff.
What is OTel Drops?
The OpenTelemetry community moves fast. OTel Drops keeps you current.
AI-hosted, human-curated
Bianca and Florian are AI voices, but every episode is curated by Juraci Paixão Kröhling — an OpenTelemetry maintainer who knows what actually matters.
Sourced from everywhere
Each episode draws from GitHub PRs, release notes, CNCF blogs, Reddit discussions, and community proposals — curated and ranked so you don't have to read them all.
~20 minutes, weekly
Dense signal, no filler. Every week you get a tight, well-structured episode covering what actually moved in the OTel ecosystem — so you can stay sharp without the time sink.
Meet the Hosts
Distinct voices, complementary perspectives, one goal: making OTel accessible.
Bianca
Software Engineer turned SRE · German background
Thinks in traces, spans, and context propagation. Bianca brings the developer's perspective — instrumentation as a first-class concern, not an afterthought. Energetic, precise, and genuinely excited about good engineering.
Florian
Platform Engineer · Dutch/French background
Grew up in Nagios, matured in Prometheus, now fully invested in OTel. Florian keeps it operational — cardinality, cost, and what it actually takes to run telemetry at scale. Measured, dry, dependable.
Rose
OTel Veteran since 2019 · Scottish background
Was there for the OpenTracing/OpenCensus merger. Rose hosts the OTel Quiz segment — encyclopedic knowledge of the ecosystem's history, delivered with warmth and a bit of mischief.
Juraci Paixão Kröhling
OpenTelemetry Maintainer · Founder of Telemetry Drops
Every episode is curated by Juraci — a core OpenTelemetry maintainer who filters the week's noise down to what genuinely matters. The hosts are AI voices, but the editorial judgment is very much human.
What's in each episode?
A consistent structure, every week — so you always know what's coming.
Rose opens with a quiz question — answer revealed at the end.
The week's most important releases, spec changes, and PRs — explained with context.
A focused explainer on one OTel concept, pattern, or debate.
Upcoming conferences, live streams, and community announcements.
4–6 brief mentions of everything else worth knowing this week.
Rose wraps up with the quiz answer and a quick explanation.
Stay current without the noise
The OTel ecosystem ships constantly — new Collector releases, SDK updates, spec changes, semantic convention revisions. Keeping up manually is a full-time job.
OTel Drops does the curation for you. Every Sunday, a tight episode covering what actually moved — so you walk into the week informed.
"New releases every two weeks, spec changes constantly landing, community proposals from all directions — OTel Drops turns all of that into a single, digestible episode."
— The premise of every episode
25+
GitHub repos tracked
Weekly
New episode cadence
~20
Minutes per episode
0
Marketing fluff
Start listening today
Available on Spotify. A new episode drops every week.
Produced by Telemetry Drops · Curated by Juraci Paixão Kröhling · Sponsored by OllyGarden