Anas Milhem

SRE/DevOps nerd. OpenTelemetry enthusiast.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Hello again.

We’re currently in Clemson, South Carolina. I’ve decided to come back here to document the final part of our road trip.

The main reason I deactivated my account two weeks ago was that things became increasingly toxic. For some people, it’s unfortunately unfathomable that a good story can exist without some kind of hidden agenda behind it. There was even a Reddit group going through my entire account trying to find anything they could use to reveal my identity.

I know this was only a small percentage of people, but after a while it became exhausting. During the last two weeks, I received so many kind messages on Instagram, and they really made me realize how many people genuinely enjoyed following the trip. Some people even told me that their grandparents regularly ask them, “What are the Germans up to today?” I think that’s really cool.

I decided to continue because I realized that the overwhelming majority of people loved following along. A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy.

I also want to clear something up, as people who follow me on Instagram already know.

I’ve been to the United States before. This is not my first visit, and I’ve never claimed that it was. The last time I was here was in January 2022, when I visited New York and Philadelphia.

A lot of people shared my Raising Cane’s post from November 2025 to make it look like I was secretly American. That post wasn’t from the United States, it was from my trip to Saudi Arabia.

This is my first time back in the U.S. in more than four years, and apart from Boston, I’d never visited any of the places we’ve been to on this trip before. That’s probably why many people assumed it was our first time in America, because for all of these places, it actually was.

And let me tell you, Ohio and Alabama are very different from New York City or Los Angeles.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks for reading.

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@FreddyLA7 So glad you are back!!

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@TheUnreliableEn Maybe you need to test telflo. Would love to hear you feedback

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@marckohlbrugge @Espen_Antonsen You’re missing one
Telflo -> otel collector fleet management

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@sibyog13 What are you using for managing otel collectors? You should checkout telflo

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@lawztech Learn setting up otel collectors as well using telflo

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@TheRideshareGuy @patrickc @apoorv_bh89 15 min in the suburbs but it’s the best bbq you’ll ever have

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@TheRideshareGuy @patrickc @apoorv_bh89 Let me know! I would love to take you there

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@TheRideshareGuy @patrickc @apoorv_bh89 Dearborn meat market

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

How can you forget about New Haven?

[The Chief ⚓️ @C2thaL2thaIGG]

New York City, Chicago and Detroit… if you’re not from one of these places, shut up when we are discussing pizza…

[Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. @ParikPatelCFA]

🚨 Spirit Airlines has decided to turn its planes into AI datacenters in a last minute effort to avoid bankruptcy

[WORLD VIEW @beauti_animals]

📍Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

Just wrote a blog on how to setup monitoring for your Kubernetes cluster using opentelemetry collector using the
agent + gateway pattern

https://t.co/5spGSX5Ync

[hirad @hiradp]

migrated all my personal projects to @Cloudflare over the weekend including transferring all of my domains.

big fan

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@YashHustle_22 Digital ocean is soo underrated

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@Outsideris This is awesome! Def gonna use this and integrate it to the AI assistant on https://t.co/JYv4hnoSLW instead of searching the web for documentation

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@polymorph3us @__dominikvit While you're at it you should also checkout https://t.co/JYv4hnoSLW to help you build configs faster. Would love to get your feedback!

[Abdullah Abu-Hassan @ababuhassan97]

For thirty years, the only way to contribute to the internet was to write code.

Linux. React. Python. WordPress. If you couldn't read a codebase, you couldn't play.

That's over.

The marketer who's run 500 campaigns knows exactly which hook converts. In an agent-first world, she packages that into a skill. Plain English instructions an agent reads and executes. No pull request. No code review. No barrier.

The salesperson who can spot a bad lead in thirty seconds. The nurse who knows which symptoms the protocol misses. The recruiter who's screened 10,000 CVs. All of it, finally shareable.

And here's the part that matters most. That knowledge starts crossing industries for the first time. The marketer's playbook helps the doctor. The lawyer's checklist helps the founder. Expertise doesn't stay trapped inside the industry it was built in.

OpenClaw is the clearest signal here. 250,000 GitHub stars in five months. Fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger isn't asking for pull requests. He's asking for prompt requests.

The unit of contribution just changed. The most valuable asset is a prompt now. And the people with the most to contribute aren't necessarily developers.

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

@bygregorr @tpschmidt_ This is why managing own collector and configs is a must

[Anas Milhem @MilhemAnas]

Preconfigured helps for day 1. Day 30 with 20 collectors across envs is a different story. We’re Building https://t.co/JYv4hnoSLW to solve exactly that problem. With telflo you can manage, version, and push configs across your whole fleet without touching raw YAML.

[SigNoz @SignozHQ]

The real issue → every service needs logs, metrics & traces, but stitching them means writing + maintaining complex collector pipelines (receive → process → export).

This doesn’t scale.
SigNoz Collection Agents simplify this.

🎥 https://t.co/Tk9VppxqkK