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Putting the trace before the loopAn observability-first approach for building an AI agent, and what it bought me.
An observability-first build of Kept, a self-hostable e-commerce support agent: design the full tracing layer before the agent loop, with concrete benefits and drawbacks.
14 min · 3,258 words
How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
Adrian Garcia Badaracco explains how Pydantic Logfire uses dynamic shredding of semi-structured OpenTelemetry attributes into separate Parquet columns, so queries on JSON attributes that once timed out now finish in under a second, plus plans for indexes and usage-based shredding.
13 min · 3,025 words