Engineering

This article highlights the benefits of OpenTelemetry for measuring and collecting telemetry data, and how the Bureau uses it in its infrastructure. It discusses the different components of the OpenTelemetry collector, such as receivers, processors, exporters, and extensions, and their use in filtering and governing data while acknowledging a couple of limitations of it.

This blog explores the importance of environment variables in front-end and back-end workflows. It emphasizes protecting sensitive data in .env files to prevent vulnerabilities. Using an example of adding an edit address feature, the blog shows how engineers rely on these variables for secure and smooth functionality, from setting API endpoints to feature updates.