Building an Ergonomic OpenTelemetry for JavaScript

This is the first of two parts.

OpenTelemetry has been, in my opinion, one of the most engaging developments in the software community over the past few years. It’s proven incredibly valuable for instrumenting distributed systems, microservices and complex architectures. Because of it, teams are able to understand their systems with increasing efficacy and share that understanding across the organization.

With its rapid adoption, OpenTelemetry is becoming increasingly prevalent on the frontend as well. However, we run into a problem: It…