Taming Complexity: Building Observable Workflows... Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino & Kasper Borg Nissen

This talk covers the complexities of building observable workflows using Dapr and OpenTelemetry in cloud-native applications. The speakers, Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino from Diagrid and Kasper Borg Nissen from Dash0, discuss event-driven orchestration with Dapr Workflows and detail how they integrate with OpenTelemetry to enhance observability of application and infrastructure interactions. They demonstrate no-touch instrumentation, which provides traces, metrics, and logs even across asynchronous boundaries. The session includes a live demo to illustrate these concepts, highlight common pitfalls, and showcase ongoing efforts to align Dapr with the OpenTelemetry specification, ultimately making observability portable and accessible for developers.