Monday, 2nd March 2026
OpenTelemetry for AI Agents: How the Strands SDK Instruments Traces, Metrics, and Token Usage
I’ve been digging into the Strands Agents SDK and was surprised to find a comprehensive, production-ready OpenTelemetry integration baked right in. If you’re building AI agents and wondering how to get visibility into what’s actually happening at runtime — model calls, tool executions, latencies, token usage — this is worth understanding.
[... 1,384 words]RDF, ROS, and Sim-to-Real: Understanding Robot Description Files
When you start working with robot simulation — whether it’s Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or MoveIt — you immediately run into a file called something.urdf. It’s one of those things that seems simple on the surface but connects to everything in the robotics stack. Here’s a clear breakdown of what URDF is, what it isn’t, and how it fits alongside ROS.
ROS 2 Humble: Complete Installation Guide with Turtlesim from Zero to First Node
This is a complete walkthrough for installing ROS 2 Humble on Ubuntu 22.04 and getting your first robot simulation running with Turtlesim. I wrote this after going through the process myself — the official docs are thorough but scattered across many pages. This puts everything in one place, from locale setup to writing your first Python node.
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