Clay Smith
Clay Smith is an engineer on the Partnerships team at Lightstep. He’s passionate about helping development and operations teams use observability tools to make their jobs easier. Prior to Lightstep, Clay has been a technical consultant at Frog Design, a developer advocate at New Relic, and one of the first product engineers at PagerDuty.
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Exploring What Kubernetes Observability Might Look Like for SRE and Operations Teams in the Future
Clay Smith | Oct 19, 2022The exciting and new tracing capabilities now built-in for the internal components that power Kubernetes itself, which means that operators that need to diagnose tricky performance issues have some powerful new solutions.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - error analytics
Clay Smith | Mar 18, 2021Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post we discuss the value of adding instrumentation to error analytics tools as part of your overall monitoring and incident response workflow.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - feature flags
Clay Smith | Mar 15, 2021Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post, we'll discuss the value of adding instrumentation to feature flags as part of your progressive delivery workflow.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - cloud services
Clay Smith | Mar 12, 2021As a founding member and core contributor of the standard, Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post we’ll show how you can extend instrumentation to API requests to AWS cloud services.
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Bring observability to your GitHub workflows with Lightstep
Clay Smith | Dec 8, 2020The Lightstep Services Change Report helps connect an intentional change in code to a performance change in a production or pre-production environment with a combination of telemetry, Lightstep Snapshots API, & flexible integration into GitHub workflows.
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