Ben Sigelman
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Co-founded @LightstepHQ.
Co-created @OpenTelemetry & @OpenTracing.
Co-created Dapper and Monarch at Google.
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http://bensigelman.org 24-06-2013 18:09:00
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We had a chat with Ben Sigelman, co-founder of OpenTelemetry, about leading the industry to a brighter future with open source.
Prior to OTel, observability required custom agents. OTel is leading the way toward a common instrumentation standard.
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I really enjoyed this conversation with Daniela Miao the other day... we covered a lot of ground, including the early days of observability for distributed systems at Google, the best levers for AI in observability, the elephants in the room for TCO+ROI, etc. Worth a listen!
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Excited to kick off our official speaker announcements for #SLOconf with this talk by Adriana Villela | @[email protected] and 👩🏽💻✨Ana Margarita Medina ✨ of Lightstep is now ServiceNow Cloud Observability 🙌
What learnings should you leverage from the incidents you’ve been through? 🤔
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New video! What about #observability for OSS? How should you use OpenTelemetry to instrument a shared library? Plus some best design practices for writing stable software and backwards compatibility.
Agree? Disagree? Let me know what you think. :)
youtu.be/EAoKqdxHEjA
OpenTelemetry Properly Explained and Demoed bit.ly/3hM2MdG BC Gain austin parker Morgan McClean #OpenTelemetry
I'm a big fan of the people and the overall approach at Momento -- moving more heavy-duty infra problems into specialized, fit-for-purpose solutions that improve performance, reduce risk, *and* reduce cost.
(Congrats, Daniela Miao and Khawaja Shams!)
Today we launched Lightstep UQL (Unified Query Language)! As #observability shifts left, UQL helps #DevOps teams ensure #Kubernetes and other cloud-native applications are natively observable.
Read more from Ben Sigelman ⬇️
#KubeCon #observability ascode
lightstep.com/blog/announcin…
Here's a stand-alone copy of the Golang auto-scaling OpenTelemetry base-2 exponential histogram github.com/lightstep/go-e… mapping and data structure. 100% of Lightstep is now ServiceNow Cloud Observability Go services are using this in production.
Not news: for cloud-native apps, log mgmt is essential, and yet all too often it’s siloed and ROI-negative.
'Yes news': the brilliant minds at Era Software are fixing that, and I am *THRILLED* to share ServiceNow’s plan to bring them to the Lightstep is now ServiceNow Cloud Observability party!
servicenow.com/blogs/2022/clo…
This is so timely! We did a #GameDay last week to assess sudden load spikes (not gradual). Our stack on #AWS has DynamoDB, #nlb , #ec2 , and Pelikan Cache.
All those parts worked - but we saw pressure in the most unexpected place:
Throttling on our Lightstep is now ServiceNow Cloud Observability metrics.
Ben Sigelman @alex-hidalgo.com on Bluesky Kit Merker James Deville sal furino SLO me closer, tiny metric /
Made from span bytes on the wiiii-re /
Burn me down in times of panic /
Error budgets gone away 🎶
sal furino Kit Merker This really speaks to Ben Sigelman and Lightstep’s model of Observability fundamentally being about improving or restoring SLOs