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VMblog Expert Interview, Daniel Spoonhower of Lightstep - The Cutting-Edge Distributed Tracing Tool
In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we spoke with Daniel Spoonhower of Lightstep.
Quick background. Lightstep delivers confidence at scale for those who develop, operate and rely on today’s powerful software applications. Its products leverage distributed tracing technology – initially developed by a Lightstep co-founder at Google – to offer best-of-breed observability to organizations adopting microservices or serverless at scale.
Watch this video interview to learn more as Spoonhower explains the industry problems that his company solves, and why they are uniquely situated to help teams understand their K8s environments at scale. Lightstep is processing over a trillion events every single day for customers, hear how they are handling and processing that much data. Finally, watch as Spoonhower walks through a demo and shows how an engineer can jump into the product to better understand their Kubernetes applications.
Find out more about Lightstep at their website: https://lightstep.com
You can also give it a try in this sandbox environment: https://lightstep.com/sandbox
Or get started with a community account: https://app.lightstep.com/signup/developer?signup_source=nav
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