#114 Do We Even Need Logs Anymore? And What is vCluster?

In this episode, we sit down with Nicolas Fränkel, Developer Advocate at Loft Labs, to talk about two things every Cloud Native engineer should know in 2025:
🪵 OpenTelemetry Tracing and 🌀 vCluster.

Nicolas helps us unpack why tracing is often the missing pillar of observability — and whether it might one day make traditional logs obsolete. We dive into:

• How traces, spans and sampling actually work under the hood.
• Why post-sampling may save your storage bill.
• What happens when you combine tracing with frameworks like Java, Go and Rust.
• And yes… how to finally understand those span IDs 😅

Then we switch gears to vCluster — Loft Labs’ open-source project that lets you run full virtual Kubernetes clusters inside another cluster. Think of it as:
👉 faster developer environments
👉 lightweight isolation for CI/CD
👉 no more waiting 15 minutes for test clusters to spin up

Whether you care about observability, cost-efficient clusters, or simply love smart engineering, this one’s packed with insights and stories from the field.

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