Awkward & intransigent thinker · Technician · Musician
Bass player in a stoner/sludge band with a passion for heavy, droning soundscapes. On the technical side I run a private Nomad cluster hosting dozens of services — including a full Grafana LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), all orchestrated through Nomad's elegant simplicity.
Deep believer in open source philosophy and open standards as the foundation for solving complex problems. Whether it's crafting crushing bass lines or architecting distributed systems, I approach everything with the conviction that transparency and collaboration drive the best solutions.
Current focus: distributed systems, observability, and making heavy music that moves both servers and souls.
Presentation: How Erste Digital unlocked observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud. Migrating from closed tools to open standards, improving collaboration across engineering teams.
Status: In Progress. Implementing Otel-based observability stack (metrics, logs, traces) across microservices.
Tech: OpenTelemetry Collector · Grafana Mimir/Tempo/Loki
Running dozens of services orchestrated through HashiCorp Nomad — leaning on its elegant simplicity instead of heavier orchestration stacks.
A full-fledged logs, traces & metrics pipeline — Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics, all visualised in Grafana.
Bass player chasing heavy, droning soundscapes — crushing bass lines that move both servers and souls.
A deep believer that transparency and collaboration are the foundation for solving complex problems.
| channel | handle |
|---|---|
| langer.markus@gmail.com | |
| github | github.com/langerma |
| in/markus-langer | |
| location | Vienna, Austria |