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Introducing Snapshot Analyzer: Interactive Investigations for Deep Systems

By Karthik Kumar

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Why You Should Have a Platform Team

By James Burns

OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 7

By Isobel Redelmeier

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Stepping It Up! LightStep Feature Updates – October 2019

By Robin Whitmore

Understanding Tracer Performance with LightStep Benchmarks

By Austin Parker + Isaac Zinda

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Kubernetes Distribution Comparison: A Brief Overview

By Vince Power

Microservices

Why Working on Monoliths is Bad for Your Career

By James Burns

Microservices

Migrating to Microservices? Here’s How to Have Reliable APIs from Day One

By James Burns

Microservices

Now Comes the Fun Part: Mainstream Microservices and Their Implications

By Ben Sigelman

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Data-Driven Hypotheses with LightStep: A Step-by-Step Guide

By Robin Whitmore

Observability

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

By Ben Sigelman

Talks We’re Looking Forward To at the Observability Practitioners Summit (and KubeCon!)

By Amelia Mango

Our Editorial Team

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Spoons

CTO and Cofounder

Spoons (or more formally Daniel Spoonhower) has published papers on the performance of parallel programs, garbage collection, and real-time programming. He has a PhD in programming languages but still hasn’t found one he loves.

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James Burns

Developer Advocate

From network load balancers to FPGAs to ASICs to embedded security to cloud ops at scale, James has seen how systems work but, more interestingly, how they fail. He is passionate about sharing what he's learned to level up teams, make developers happier, and improve customer experiences.

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Isobel Redelmeier

OSS Engineer

Isobel Redelmeier is an Open Source Engineer at LightStep, where she focuses on OpenTracing and the overall goal of making the software world more observable. Ask her about observability, security, testing, or, frankly, most other software-related topics, and she'll probably have an opinion or three!

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Joe Blubaugh

Software Engineer

Joe Blubaugh works on data storage systems and data analysis tools for LightStep customers. He’s interested in real-time data systems, distributed system design, and data visualization.

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