Every team says they want better observability, but adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation is repetitive, tedious, convention-heavy work. Wah wah wahhhh, what a drag. Enter Spinybacked Orbweaver to save the day! Spinybacked Orbweaver is an AI-powered telemetry agent that can analyze your code, add the instrumentation, check its own work, and open a pull request. And it can do it consistently well, following your company's telemetry standards! This speaker built it, and she'll demo it live. Sparkles and rainbows! But here's where it gets interesting: how does the agent know if it did a good job? Two things. First, the OpenTelemetry project has a tool called Weaver that lets you define your team's telemetry standards as a machine-readable schema. Second, there's an emerging open specification called the Instrumentation Score that rates instrumentation quality on a 0-to-100 scale using standardized rules. The agent validates against both of these, plus some custom rules. When the agent fails its own checks, it gets the feedback and tries again. Generate, validate, learn, retry. You'll watch the whole thing happen against a real codebase. The agent discovers what to instrument, writes the code, gets rejected by its own quality checks, fixes its mistakes, and produces a PR. Along the way, you'll get grounded in what OpenTelemetry, Weaver, and the Instrumentation Score are, why they exist, and why good telemetry is worth caring about... but not enough to suffer the tedium of manual code instrumentation.
Whitney Lee is a creator and systems thinker who explores how observability, AI, and platform engineering connect across the cloud native ecosystem. She brings humor, depth, and clarity to complex technologies while building original frameworks that help others understand how systems fit together. She runs a vibrant YouTube channel, hosts Datadog Illuminated and Software Defined Interviews, has delivered two KubeCon keynotes and countless breakout talks, and combines storytelling and technical rigor to illuminate the human side of cloud native engineering.
