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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Webinar

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Sponsored by lightstep


Tuesday, August 18, 2020
1 pm EDT

Many engineering organizations are adopting microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity.

However, this increased velocity often comes at the cost of overall application performance or reliability. Worse, teams often don’t understand what’s affecting performance or reliability – or even who to ask to learn more. Distributed tracing was developed at organizations like Google and Twitter to address these problems.

In this talk, we’ll cover the fundamentals of distributed tracing and how it can be not only used to understand a distributed system, but also prioritize engineering work. As part of an observability platform, tracing can improve communication among teams, support other DevOps practices, and ultimately bring performance and reliability back until control.

AUSTIN PARKER
Principal Developer Advocate - Lightstep
Austin Parker has been solving - and creating - problems with computers and technology for most of his life. He is the Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep and maintainer on the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. His professional dream is to  build a world where we're able to create and run more reliable software. In addition to his professional work, he's taught college classes, spoken about all things DevOps and Distributed Tracing, and even found time to start a podcast. Austin is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Distributed Tracing in Practice, available in early 2020 from O'Reilly Media.

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