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Austin Parker

Principal Developer Advocate

Austin Parker has been solving - and creating - problems with computers and technology for most of his life and a maintainer on the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. Austin is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Distributed Tracing in Practice, available in early 2020 from O'Reilly Media.

Austin Parker

Lightstep announces the acquisition of trusted provider of structured logs, Lumbr

OpenTelemetry automatic instrumentation: a deep dive

OpenTelemetry specification: a year in review

Lightstep makes Kubernetes observability seamless with OpenTelemetry and Ambassador

Lightstep is now free for developers

Distributed tracing: Why it’s needed and how it evolved

Making the complex simple: Correlation-driven dynamic sampling of trace data

Understanding static site performance with OpenTelemetry

Got Observability Questions? Bring ‘em to Office Hours!

The Case for Human-Centric Observability

Why Observability Needs to Stay Weird

Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm: Which is better?

Navigating microservices with OpenTelemetry

Your system is deeper than you think

Lightstep Adopts W3C Trace Context

OpenTelemetry 101: What is an exporter?

Understanding tracer performance with Lightstep benchmarks

OpenTelemetry 101: What are metrics?

OpenTelemetry 101: How to Start Contributing

OpenTelemetry 101: What is tracing?

OpenTelemetry 101: What Is Observability?

Updates to Developer Mode: New Instrumentation and Debugging Tools for Tracing

Distributed Tracing for .NET with Lightstep

opentracing.io v2 Released - Learn About Distributed Tracing & Get Involved

Lightstep, OpenTracing, and Hot Soup