New York

October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

Ted Young is the Director of Open Source Development at Lightstep, and one of the core maintainers of the OpenTracing project. Ted has spent the last 15 years building distributed systems in a variety of environments: computer animation, national elections, and elastic compute platforms.

Designing for money and happiness in large-scale open source

Making the happiness and satisfaction of your community a design requirement

A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector

Combining tracing, metrics, and logs into a single stream of data.

What is observability and why should you care?

Faster and more effective monitoring with OpenTelemetry