Distributed Systems
Jaeger Tracing for Cross-Service Debugging
Jaeger turns a slow request across many services into one visual trace. How distributed tracing works, what to instrument, and the sampling tradeoff that bites.
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Observability for Distributed Systems
A connected series on production observability: distributed tracing to locate the slow service, and operator-first dashboards that answer one question fast when you are paged.
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- Engineering Strategy
Grafana Dashboards for Operators, Not Executives
Most Grafana dashboards are decoration. An operator dashboard answers one question fast during an incident. How to design dashboards that speed up debugging.
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