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

Why You Shouldn’t Be A Race Car Driver

Ask Austin: Putting The IR into ObseRvabIlity

The Think Tank: The Future of Cloud-Native Observability

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