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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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Commiserating About Microservices Nightmares
Kristin Brennan | Sep 17, 2018How do things go wrong in production and what are the lessons we can learn from those experiences?
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The Only Good Reason to Adopt Microservices
Vijay Gill | Jul 18, 2018Given blogosphere chatter and a few well-propagated success stories, many large software engineering organizations are plotting a path towards microservices.
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Microservices Lead the New Class of Performance Management Solutions
Kristin Brennan | May 1, 2018There is a fundamental shift taking place in the market today with the massive adoption of microservices. As Gartner stated in a recent report, most APM solutions are ill-suited to the dynamism, modularity and scale of microservice-based applications.
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The end of microservices
Spoons | Jul 18, 2017A post from the future, where building reliable and scalable production systems has become as easy as, well, writing any other software.
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