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What made SLOs so messy (and what we can do about it)

The joys and sorrows of the SLOs that connect engineers and end-users across a distributed system.

Dec 7, 2021

What made SLOs so messy (and what we can do about it)

Dec 7, 2021

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Sampling, verbosity, and the case for (much) broader applications of distributed tracing

Originally posted as this twitter thread.

Nov 17, 2021

Sampling, verbosity, and the case for (much) broader applications of distributed tracing

Nov 17, 2021

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The Three “Digital Transformations” (and how to bring them together)

How technology transformed Operations before it transformed Product, and how to connect these two separate practices.

Sep 20, 2021

The Three “Digital Transformations” (and how to bring them together)

Sep 20, 2021

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Why Tracing Might Replace (Almost) All Logging

This is a thread about why tracing will gradually replace most logging (… and explored through the lens of a relational data model).

Apr 23, 2021

Why Tracing Might Replace (Almost) All Logging

Apr 23, 2021

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Making Continuous Delivery “Global,” via Observability

The easier part of Continuous Delivery (“CD”) is, well, “continuously delivering software.” The harder part is doing it reliably. :)

Apr 7, 2021

Making Continuous Delivery “Global,” via Observability

Apr 7, 2021

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The Two Drivers of Cardinality (and what to do about them)

Cardinality can be expensive but it doesn’t have to be. This is a thread about what it’s good (and bad) for

Mar 27, 2021

The Two Drivers of Cardinality (and what to do about them)

Mar 27, 2021

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Observability will never replace Monitoring (… because it shouldn’t)

Observability won’t replace Monitoring – it will augment Monitoring.

Mar 27, 2021

Observability will never replace Monitoring (… because it shouldn’t)

Mar 27, 2021

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Deep Stacks Versus Deep Systems

The differences between “stacks” within a CPU and “stacks” within a distributed system (and what that means for APM and observability)

Mar 27, 2021

Deep Stacks Versus Deep Systems

Mar 27, 2021

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APM Is Dying

How architectural evolution is going to create deep systems (and kill APM)

Mar 27, 2021

APM Is Dying

Mar 27, 2021

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Regrets About Dapper and Monarch

What we did right – and especially what we did wrong – when we designed Google’s tracing and metrics systems.

Mar 27, 2021

Regrets About Dapper and Monarch

Mar 27, 2021

Ben Sigelman

Ben Sigelman

Co-founder and CEO at LightStep, Co-creator of @OpenTelemetry and @OpenTracing, built Dapper (Google’s tracing system).

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