Distributed Tracing

Have you heard about the “three pillars of observability” yet? No? The story goes like this: If you’re using microservices, you already know that they’re nearly

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

Stripe processes payments for thousands of businesses. A single payment could involve 10 different networked services. If a payment fails, engineers need to be able to diagnose what

You are requesting a car from a ridesharing service such as Lyft. Your request hits the Lyft servers and begins trying to get you a car. It takes your geolocation, and passes the

Google Docs is used by millions of people to collaborate on documents together. With today’s technology, you could spend a weekend coding and build a basic version of a collaborative