February 2025 monthly summary: Delivered a critical dependency upgrade and resolved key loading issues to improve reliability and business value. Key features delivered: - Grafana/opentelemetry-rust: Upgraded opentelemetry-prometheus to 0.28, aligned dependencies to the 0.28 release cycle, and updated Cargo.toml. Included minor test resource initialization adjustments to preserve CI stability and consistency after the upgrade. Major bugs fixed: - emilk/egui: Resolved image loading for animated WebP/GIF assets by stripping the frame index from URIs, enabling correct cache lookups and reliable loading when animation playback is not supported. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved runtime stability and cache efficiency for image assets, and ensured the metrics pipeline remains aligned with upstream releases. Reduced risk of CI/test flakiness due to dependency changes. Strengthened cross-repo consistency and maintainability. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Rust, Cargo dependency management, and versioning - Cache handling and URI normalization for image assets - Testing and CI stability practices - Dependency upgrade execution with minimal surface area impact