O11ycast
Hosted by Ken Rimple and Jessica Kerr and Jess and Ken and Martin Thwaites and Charity Majors · Heavybit
4.9from 28 ratings
- 92
- Episodes
- 28
- Transcribed
- 28
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About O11ycast
Exploring the observability side of software development.
- Publisher
- Heavybit
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 15 Jun 2018
- Latest episode
- 28 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
28 of 92 episodes have a transcript.
28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. #93, Adaptive Sampling Strategies with Mike Goldsmith
9 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. #92, Confidence Is the New Bottleneck with Ray Myers
4 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. #91, Every Failure Becomes an Eval with Janaki Vivrekar
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Ep. #93, Adaptive Sampling Strategies with Mike Goldsmith
Published 28 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] All the services it touched, all of the different instrumentation spans that it touched. Did it go to a database? Did it go to an external service? Was there an error somewhere in there? It can have all of that context to allow you to make really educated, full understanding of what happened in this trace and then make its sampling decision based on it. So there's three main sampling strategies that are available to people in OpenTelemetry right now. The first one is head sampling. Head sampling is typically done at the SDK level, but can be done in the collector, and that applies a flat percentage of the number of traces that are coming through to me. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on O11ycast
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Mike Goldsmith
- Ray Myers
- Janaki Vivrekar
- Cory Ondrejka
- Bryan Cantrill
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 21 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 7 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100
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- Quality
- 64
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts O11ycast?
Ken Rimple and Jessica Kerr and Jess and Ken and Martin Thwaites and Charity Majors host the show. Published by Heavybit.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does O11ycast take guests?
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