Distributed Tracing - Shipping Quickly And Confidently
summary
Lightstep demo shows a concrete workflow: GitLab CI/CD deploys a dockerized hipster shop to Google Kubernetes Engine with traces tagged by git version so telemetry maps to code. A latency regression appears in the inventory service where update inventory jumps from a few hundred ms to over a second in version 1.14.187 and Lightstep isolates a request tag large batch=true. Correlated logs reveal a cache write 113–13,000 items, letting teams open a bug, roll back, and fix the offending change under three clicks.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:03Observability in practice
- 3:31Demo environment setup
- 4:15Hipster Shop microservices
- 6:20Customer complaints and latency
- 7:03Analyzing latency in Lightstep
- 8:25Drilling down to root cause
- 9:49Correlated logs and fixes
- 10:52Q&A
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