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Live coding with Ryan Dahl: Deno and OpenTelemetry

Talkat dotJS 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· [observability, nodejs]
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Live coding shows a small API that randomly throws when a generated user ID starts with "a" and how Deno auto-instruments it so trace IDs attached to console logs make the bug trivial to find under load. Demo uses Hono, curl and Graphana, Deno 2.2 adds auto-instrumenting with one trace per HTTP request and spans for inbound/outbound calls, and exporting to observability backends works with no app code changes.

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  1. 0:00Deno and OpenTelemetry intro
  2. 1:48Debugging production challenges
  3. 2:51Live coding buggy service
  4. 8:43Fixing the bug with OpenTelemetry
  5. 12:26Async context for automatic tracing
  6. 13:31Deno 2.2 built-in telemetry
  7. 15:20Telemetry in Deno Deploy
  8. 17:55JavaScript trademark digression
  9. 19:22Q&A
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