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Building in public

Engineering notes from the junkyard.

I'm rebuilding Junkyard, my Go log aggregator, into a personal observability platform: OTLP ingestion, a custom time-series database, Kubernetes deployment, and writing up every design decision along the way.

// Go · OpenTelemetry · Kubernetes · distributed systems, one post at a time

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JUNKYARD V2 · #12026-07-20~8 min

Rebuilding Junkyard: a mini-Datadog from scratch

Why I'm throwing away a working log aggregator and rebuilding it as an OTLP-native observability platform, and the architecture I'm starting with: a deliberate ingestion pipeline, a custom TSDB, and a documented reason for every trade-off.

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