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Strengthening our commitment to the OpenTelemetry project
Carter Socha | April 20, 2023Lightstep is the first company to natively provide customers with complete control of their telemetry pipeline which saves time and money, and provides the freedom to innovate at scale. By embracing OpenTelemetry support without vendor lock-in, Lightstep helps you make complex app development easier and faster.
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Stepping it up! Lightstep feature updates - August 2021
Robin Whitmore | Aug 31, 2021A detailed article on the latest Lightstep enhancements, so you're sure not to miss out on how Lightstep is evolving to make your life easier.
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Robin Whitmore | Jul 16, 2021A detailed article on the latest Lightstep enhancements, so you're sure not to miss out on how Lightstep is evolving to make your life easier.
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The Anatomy of Three Incidents: Randy Shoup on Outages and Postmortems
Lindsay Neeson | Jun 24, 2021As part of our 99 Percent Visible series, we had a conversation with Randy Shoup, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay. With system-wide outages at three large companies, Randy has almost perfected a postmortem system. Let’s take a look!
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Learning to Learn by Teaching: Kat Cosgrove on Developer Education
Lindsay Neeson | May 27, 2021We recently sat down with Kat Cosgrove to discuss learning and teaching all things DevOps as part of our 99 Percent Visible series. Let’s look into some top tips Kat had during the conversation.
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Robin Whitmore | May 18, 2021A detailed article on the latest Lightstep enhancements, so you're sure not to miss out on how Lightstep is evolving to make your life easier.
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“It’s a shortcut, not an exit.” – Why I’m thrilled that Lightstep is joining ServiceNow
Ben Sigelman | May 10, 2021I'm excited to announce Lightstep is joining ServiceNow. For me – and for the team at Lightstep – this isn’t an exit, it’s a shortcut, an entrance, and a massive accelerant as we continue to pursue Lightstep’s mission. We couldn't be more excited!
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Diagnosing latency: Lightstep vs. Jaeger
Andrew Chee | Apr 27, 2021Today, we will discuss how Lightstep approaches the problem of diagnosing latency and will demonstrate how our approach differs from Jaeger’s, even though we both accept the same distributed tracing telemetry. Jump in to learn more!
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OpenTelemetry Go: All you need to know
Ted Young | Apr 14, 2021Welcome back to the latest edition of OpenTelemetry: All you need to know. Today we’ll be focusing on one of my favorite languages, Go. This article will go into how to install OpenTelemetry and how to get started in Go.
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How we built Lightstep Metrics: 6 core principles to our user experience
Kristen Bouchard, Kay Watson | Apr 12, 2021Earlier this year, Lightstep launched a ton of new things that expands our product into a more robust observability tool. Behind these newly released features, there are 6 key principles we follow in designing a useful, intuitive, & guided user experience.
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