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Observability: what is it good for?
Spoons | Feb 5, 2021Observability tools form the cornerstone of understanding what’s happening in your systems. These tools only offer real value when they’re used across your organization. Read this post for insight on what observability is good for and how to use it.
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Why should OpenTelemetry be your standard for telemetry?
Spoons | Dec 16, 2020OpenTelemetry provides a cost-effective and scalable way for your platform and infrastructure teams to support the rest of the organization while still enforcing those standards. In this blog, we’ll discuss why OpenTelemetry should be your new standard.
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Lightstep's commitment to security
Spoons | Oct 14, 2020Today, we are announcing the availability of our Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II report. This independent validation of security controls is crucial for enterprise observability.
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Microservices Architecture: When and How To Move To Microservices
Spoons | Mar 5, 2020Often the transition to microservices is framed as a migration. Realistically, it’s better to think about this as a journey: you will learn a lot along the way, including more about your software and your organization.
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Lightstep Coding Bootcamp
Spoons | Jan 15, 2020Today we will cover the only incident response guide you’ll ever need. Welcome to the Lightstep Coding Bootcamp.
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Adopting Kubernetes? Here’s What You Should Definitely Not Do
Spoons | Sep 3, 2019Kubernetes is changing the infrastructure landscape is by enabling platform teams to scale much more effectively. This article dives into what you definitely should not do when adopting Kubernetes.
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Serverless Still Runs on Servers
Spoons | Nov 29, 2018Serverless is important, and we should all care about it, even though it's a silly buzzword: like NoSQL before it, the term describes "negative space" – what it isn't rather than what it is. What's serverless? A cat is serverless, donuts are...
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DevOps and site reliability engineering - what's different at Lightstep
Spoons | Jun 6, 2018At Lightstep, we spend every day helping our customers understand performance behavior in their distributed applications.
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Using a Mystery Shopper: Discovering Service Interruptions in Monitoring Systems
Spoons | Aug 7, 2017In this post, we'll help you answer what features your users depend on most. Just as a retail store manager can hire a mystery shopper to ask the right questions, you should use monitoring tools to verify that your important features are working to spec.
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