Daniel Spoonhower

Daniel Spoonhower

Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower is a cofounder at Lightstep, provider of a full-context observability platform that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. An expert in distributed tracing, he is a core contributor to the OpenTracing project (a CNCF project) and author of Distributed Tracing in Practice. Previously, he spent around six years as a staff software engineer on Google’s Infrastructure and Cloud Platform teams.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower, CTO and Co-founder, Lightstep Author of Distributed Tracing in Practice (O’Reilly Media, 2020) New software architectures like