For our latest specialist interview in our series speaking to technology leaders from around the world, we’ve welcomed James Kaplan CEO and Co-Founder of MeetKai. He founded the startup with his Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Weili Dai, after becoming frustrated with the limitations of current automated assistants. Kaplan has had a true passion for AI and coding since he was six. He wrote his first bot at only nine years old and wrote the first original Pokemon Go bot.

Do you also find yourself confused by all the Open-this and Open-that names flying around? There are currently a good few Open projects, standards, tools – OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenCensus, OpenSearch… heck, even my podcast is called OpenObservability! And new Open names seem to be popping up every other day. If you too feel this way, there’s no need. Many feel similarly confused.

Once a year we let our imagination go wild for a whole week during our annual Hackweek event. It’s where we come up with product updates, like dark mode support, design them and implement prototypes. The mobile engineering team came up with the idea for a Sentry mobile app that focuses on Release Health. We wanted to give developers a concise but comprehensive view of if a release was healthy, errored, or experiencing abnormal crash sessions across multiple projects.

We are excited to inform all of our users that we will be bringing OpenSearch and OpenDashboards onto the Logit.io platform in the coming months. You may have already been aware that we’ve previously announced our support for the previous iteration of OpenSearch & OpenDashboards known as Open Distro in our response here. Due to our early public support of these oncoming changes you can see our platform cited on the official AWS OpenSearch website.

Qiao Han is a Software Engineer at BasisAI and co-author of Boxkite. He is interested in everything related to observability and has contributed to popular open source projects like libcurl and aiohttp. This post is written together with his coworker Linh Nguyen, who is a Tech Lead at BasisAI.

In Episode 1 of the OCTOpod, Alan Clark talks with Thierry Carrez about open source communities: what they are, how they work and how you can get involved.