Hazel Weakly

Fellow at the Nivenly Foundation

Hazel spends her days building out teams of humans as well as the systems and tooling to make life better for others. She currently serves as a Director of the Haskell Foundation, as a Fellow of the Nivenly Foundation, and is fondly known as the Infrastructure Witch of Hachyderm (a popular Mastodon instance).

Posts by this Author ( 2 )

OpenTelemetry

10 June 2025 • 6 min read

OpenTelemetry challenges: Handling long-running spans

The solution to long-running spans in OpenTelemetry is more creative than “don’t have long-running spans.” Learn how to address this common problem.

observability

10 June 2025 • 7 min read

The 4 evolutions of your observability journey

The known/unknown matrix can be incredibly helpful in understanding where you are with your observability implementation.