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Nathaniel Ruiz Nowell

Author: Nathaniel Ruiz Nowell

Nathaniel is a recent graduate working as a Software Development Engineer on the AWS X-Ray team. His major contributions are in the OpenTelemetry Python and OpenTelemetry Lambda repositories. He most enjoys working on tools which make our lives easier and finds that observability and tracing complex systems is a great way to do that. Feel free to reach out and talk about all things telemetry, gaming, or engineering in general.

Auto-instrumenting a Python application with an AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Lambda layer

Customers want better insight into understanding the behavior of their systems, but not all customers can afford to make significant code changes in their existing pipelines to add more observability. In this walkthrough, we explain how to get telemetry data from AWS Lambda Python functions, without having to change a line of code. Find the […]