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Mike Goldsmith

Mike Goldsmith

Staff Software Engineer

Mike is an engineer with a lot of experience working on open source projects, including contributing to OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. Mike lives in Durham, UK with his wife and family (two kids, two cats and dog) and enjoys watching sports and playing guitar.

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Managing OpenTelemetry Semantic Convention Migrations With the Collector
April 23, 2026

Managing OpenTelemetry Semantic Convention Migrations With the Collector

This is what a semantic convention migration looks like in practice: not a clean cutover, but months of coexistence where old and new attribute names overlap. In this post, I'll explain why this happens, how the OpenTelemetry Collector's schema processor is designed to automate migrations in both directions, and what we're actively working on to get it into a state where everyone can use it.

Instrumentation
Technical Deep Dives
OpenTelemetry
What Is Auto-Instrumentation?
January 11, 2022

What Is Auto-Instrumentation?

Instrumenting your code generates telemetry that shows you how your system is performing, and whether your system is healthy.

Instrumentation
Technical Deep Dives
Updates to the Java Beeline: Sweeter Than Ever Before
July 21, 2020

Updates to the Java Beeline: Sweeter Than Ever Before

We’ve released some improvements to our Java Beeline library! Allow me to share all the interesting new features. Hot topics: Spring Boot Sleuth Starter, JDBC auto-instrumentation, Simplified Beeline Builder, W3C and AWS trace header propagation.

Connectors & Integrations
Instrumentation