Software Engineering Daily · Thursday, October 1, 2026
David Burns is working on pet projects focused on observability in testing and Continuous Delivery (CD) events. He believes integrating observability tools like OpenTelemetry into test runs can significantly improve debugging by providing end-to-end traces, allowing developers to pinpoint failures more effectively.
“So observability allows people to create traces through applications and people have been doing them for about eight years, nine years with the open telemetry stuff. The difference is I don't think a lot of people put it into their tests and then be able to see a test go from, I've hit the website all the way through their application to know when something fails.”
“The other thing that I've been doing a lot of reading up on is CD events. So continuous deployment or continuous delivery events, which allows you to kind of build out these event driven things into your CI and pipeline. So you can always track where something could be.”
“Because observability allows you to create traces, right? And so if you go, here's my trace key. and I want you to use it all the way through.”