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

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

Why Tracing Might Replace (Almost) All Logging

This is a thread about why tracing will gradually…

Making Continuous Delivery “Global” via Observability

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

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

Deep Stacks Versus Deep Systems

The differences between “stacks” within a CPU and “stacks” within a…

APM Is Dying

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

Regrets About Dapper and Monarch

What we did right – and especially what we did wrong – when we…

The “Three Pillars of observability” that weren’t

“Resources” and “Transactions”: a fundamental duality in observability

DevOps, Observability, and the need to tear down organizational boundaries

Your System is Deeper Than You Think

I’ve spoken with a lot of developers who think that their system…

APM is Dying — and That’s Okay

In APM’s heyday (think “New Relic and AppDynamics circa 2015”), the value prop was straightforward: “Just…

How Deep Systems Broke Observability — and What We Can Do About It

Google’s June 2nd Outage: Their Status Page != Reality | LightStep

June 3, 2019 | James Burns

How to Launch a Distributed Tracing MVP with Just 50 Lines of Code

Now Comes the Fun Part: Mainstream Microservices and their Implications

Traces are Dead: Long Live (LightStep) Tracing

March 4, 2019 | Ben Sigelman

Signal, Noise, and a Service Diagram That Actually Answers Questions

On-Call Duty: At 2 am, Intuition Isn’t Enough

February 5, 2019 | Dennis Chu

Best Practices for Instrumenting Applications with OpenTracing

InVision Improves Performance by 75% with LightStep [𝑥]PM

Looking Back, Looking Forward

… and fundraising when we’re ready to use it