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2026  36

August  8

New world as an ADHD person

August 28, 2026 · 6 min · 1108 words · Kemal Akkoyun

My Second Brain System: PARA, Readwise, and an LLM captures my thoughts

August 21, 2026 · 7 min · 1435 words · Kemal Akkoyun

talk: Instrument Go Without Changing a Single Line

August 13, 2026 · 3 min · 447 words · Kemal Akkoyun

talk: Why Your Go Benchmarks Are Lying

August 12, 2026 · 2 min · 384 words · Kemal Akkoyun

podcast: Cup o’ Go — Instrumentation and Blast Radius

August 11, 2026 · 2 min · 336 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Making zero-touch Go observability agent-actionable

August 6, 2026 · 9 min · 1898 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Three Questions Before You Trust a Benchmark

August 4, 2026 · 11 min · 2271 words · Kemal Akkoyun

A/B is the wrong model for CI

August 1, 2026 · 8 min · 1488 words · Kemal Akkoyun

July  15

A PR gate that actually fails

July 31, 2026 · 11 min · 2277 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Go runtime futures: flight recording, USDT, and the instrumentation hook problem

July 30, 2026 · 9 min · 1826 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Benchmark CI That Doesn’t Lie

July 28, 2026 · 14 min · 2874 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Context across goroutines and connections

July 27, 2026 · 7 min · 1409 words · Kemal Akkoyun

See it run: OBI and the eBPF profiler without Kubernetes

July 25, 2026 · 8 min · 1548 words · Kemal Akkoyun

The laptop said 230%

July 24, 2026 · 6 min · 1134 words · Kemal Akkoyun

The fourth signal: continuous profiling without code changes

July 23, 2026 · 7 min · 1385 words · Kemal Akkoyun

OpenTelemetry Go Compile-time Instrumentation v1

July 22, 2026 · 7 min · 1434 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Before CI: Can You Trust a Benchmark on Your Own Laptop?

July 21, 2026 · 12 min · 2373 words · Kemal Akkoyun

otelc: zero-touch Go traces at compile time

July 16, 2026 · 8 min · 1632 words · Kemal Akkoyun

A Single Benchmark Number Is a Lie

July 14, 2026 · 11 min · 2140 words · Kemal Akkoyun

What a uprobe costs, and what USDT buys

July 11, 2026 · 7 min · 1340 words · Kemal Akkoyun

OBI: eBPF auto-instrumentation for Go in production

July 9, 2026 · 7 min · 1418 words · Kemal Akkoyun

The Go Benchmark That Measured Nothing: Compiler Honesty in testing.B

July 7, 2026 · 13 min · 2713 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Why Go can’t be monkey-patched (and what people do about it)

July 2, 2026 · 8 min · 1595 words · Kemal Akkoyun

June  2

Benchmarking Go, quickly

June 30, 2026 · 8 min · 1509 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Mentorship in Open Source — Part 3: Stewardship Inside OpenTelemetry

June 5, 2026 · 8 min · 1552 words · Kemal Akkoyun

May  3

Mentorship in Open Source — Part 2: The Mentee Playbook

May 29, 2026 · 13 min · 2576 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Why I Keep Mentoring in Open Source

May 22, 2026 · 5 min · 943 words · Kemal Akkoyun

From talk to docs: The Zen of Prometheus

May 15, 2026 · 4 min · 700 words · Kemal Akkoyun

March  1

Measuring Software Performance: Why Your Benchmarks Are Probably Lying

March 6, 2026 · 13 min · 2680 words · Kemal Akkoyun

February  7

Auto-Instrumenting Go: From eBPF to USDT Probes

February 27, 2026 · 12 min · 2522 words · Kemal Akkoyun

OTel Unplugged EU 2026: Field Notes from the Instrumentation Frontier

February 20, 2026 · 10 min · 2114 words · Kemal Akkoyun

FOSDEM 2026: Even Bigger, Even Better

February 13, 2026 · 7 min · 1472 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Fix Go Module Downloads Behind a Corporate VPN

February 12, 2026 · 3 min · 564 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Stop Putting API Keys in Your Shell Config

February 12, 2026 · 8 min · 1595 words · Kemal Akkoyun

talk: How to Instrument Go Without Changing a Single Line of Code

February 1, 2026 · 1 min · 206 words · Kemal Akkoyun

talk: How to Reliably Measure Software Performance

February 1, 2026 · 1 min · 209 words · Kemal Akkoyun

2025  3

August  1

talk: Unleashing the Go Toolchain

August 14, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Kemal Akkoyun

March  1

Vibe Coding with Cursor: My R&D Week Adventure 🚀

March 12, 2025 · 6 min · 1125 words · Kemal Akkoyun

February  1

FOSDEM 2025: Blimey, What a Weekend!

February 4, 2025 · 3 min · 489 words · Kemal Akkoyun

2024  4

October  1

When Hustle Culture and Personal Values Collide: Lessons from My AI/ML Startup Journey

October 16, 2024 · 4 min · 637 words · Kemal Akkoyun

March  1

I left Polar Signals or A new chapter in my professional journey

March 18, 2024 · 3 min · 448 words · Kemal Akkoyun

February  2

Profiling Python with eBPF: A New Frontier in Performance Analysis

February 12, 2024 · 5 min · 852 words · Kemal Akkoyun

talk: Profiling Python with eBPF: A New Frontier in Performance Analysis

February 4, 2024 · 2 min · 314 words · Kemal Akkoyun

2023  3

October  1

Profiling Python and Ruby using eBPF

October 4, 2023 · 1 min · word · Kemal Akkoyun

April  1

talk: Prometheus Updates and Deep Dive

April 19, 2023 · 1 min · 196 words · Kemal Akkoyun

March  1

Ice and Fire: How to read icicle and flame graphs

March 28, 2023 · 1 min · 36 words · Kemal Akkoyun

2022  7

November  1

talk: Best Practices and Pitfalls of Instrumenting Your Cloud-Native Application

November 8, 2022 · 1 min · 170 words · Kemal Akkoyun

June  1

talk: Story of Correlation - Integrating Thanos Metrics with Observability Signals

June 15, 2022 · 1 min · 153 words · Kemal Akkoyun

May  1

talk: eBPF? Safety First!

May 10, 2022 · 1 min · 181 words · Kemal Akkoyun

March  1

talk: Building a Go Profiler Using Go

March 20, 2022 · 2 min · 307 words · Kemal Akkoyun

February  1

talk: Achieving Zero-Instrumentation Monitoring with eBPF

February 15, 2022 · 1 min · 121 words · Kemal Akkoyun

January  2

Fantastic Symbols and Where to Find Them - Part 2

January 27, 2022 · 7 min · 1298 words · Kemal Akkoyun

Fantastic Symbols and Where to Find Them - Part 1

January 13, 2022 · 9 min · 1703 words · Kemal Akkoyun

2021  3

September  1

talk: Parca - Profiling in the Cloud-Native Era

September 25, 2021 · 1 min · 138 words · Kemal Akkoyun

May  1

talk: Upstream-First, High Scale Prometheus Ecosystem

May 3, 2021 · 1 min · 197 words · Kemal Akkoyun

April  1

talk: Profiling Go Applications in the Cloud-Native Era

April 20, 2021 · 1 min · 141 words · Kemal Akkoyun

2020  4

December  1

talk: Building Observable Go Services

December 1, 2020 · 2 min · 226 words · Kemal Akkoyun

November  1

talk: Absorbing Thanos Infinite Powers for Multi-Cluster Telemetry

November 10, 2020 · 1 min · 122 words · Kemal Akkoyun

September  1

talk: The Zen of Prometheus

September 20, 2020 · 1 min · 200 words · Kemal Akkoyun

February  1

talk: Are you testing your observability?

February 15, 2020 · 1 min · 204 words · Kemal Akkoyun

2019  1

April  1

Making Drone Builds 10 Times Faster!

April 10, 2019 · 7 min · 1291 words · Kemal Akkoyun