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Episode Synopsis
This episode of HashiCast features Ben Sigelman from LightStep.
Ben Sigelman is the CEO and Cofounder LightStep. LightStep is rethinking observability in the emerging world of microservices. He spent nine years at Google where he led the design and development of several global-scale monitoring systems. The most significant of these were Dapper, an always-on distributed tracing system, and Monarch, a high-availability time series collection, storage, and query system.
Join us as we chat about monitoring approaches in the world of distributed systems, OpenTracing, and the growing world of observability with awesome projects like Zipkin.
Recorded on April 6, 2018.
Links
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Dapper Paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/papers/dapper-2010-1.pdf
Vizceral by Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/vizceral-open-source-acc0c32113fe
Flux by Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/flux-a-new-approach-to-system-intuition-cf428b7316ec
OpenTracing call: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAa4TcX4eLBenz9A1SjzL-Q/
Blog post "The difference between tracing, tracing, and tracing": https://medium.com/opentracing/the-difference-between-tracing-tracing-and-tracing-84b49b2d54ea
Ben’s Monitorama talk: https://vimeo.com/221051832
Ben's Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/el_bhs
LightStep: https://lightstep.com/
Ben Sigelman is the CEO and Cofounder LightStep. LightStep is rethinking observability in the emerging world of microservices. He spent nine years at Google where he led the design and development of several global-scale monitoring systems. The most significant of these were Dapper, an always-on distributed tracing system, and Monarch, a high-availability time series collection, storage, and query system.
Join us as we chat about monitoring approaches in the world of distributed systems, OpenTracing, and the growing world of observability with awesome projects like Zipkin.
Recorded on April 6, 2018.
Links
--------
Dapper Paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/papers/dapper-2010-1.pdf
Vizceral by Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/vizceral-open-source-acc0c32113fe
Flux by Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/flux-a-new-approach-to-system-intuition-cf428b7316ec
OpenTracing call: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAa4TcX4eLBenz9A1SjzL-Q/
Blog post "The difference between tracing, tracing, and tracing": https://medium.com/opentracing/the-difference-between-tracing-tracing-and-tracing-84b49b2d54ea
Ben’s Monitorama talk: https://vimeo.com/221051832
Ben's Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/el_bhs
LightStep: https://lightstep.com/
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