Distributed Tracing Infrastructure with Ben Sigelman and Alex Kehlenbeck

Apr 19, 2022 by SED

Observability consists of metrics, logs, and traces. Lightstep is a company that builds distributed tracing infrastructure, which requires them to store and serve high volumes of trace data. There are numerous architecture challenges that come with managing this data. Ben Sigelman and Alex Kehlenbeck join the show to discuss the implementation of Lightstep.

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