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Three Ways to Trace End-to-end Having end-to-end distributed traces is a huge challenge for any project. In distributed tracing, end-to-end tracing is a term often used to refer to traces that capture most components in a critical path. Imagine an HTTP request made to trigger a Lambda function. Being able to see the HTTP client…
Distributed Tracing
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Why is metric collection still a hard problem in 2020? Metric collection keeps being one of the hard problems. We’ve been collecting metrics for a very long time, so why is this a hard problem still in 2020? Our workloads are becoming larger and more sophisticated. In order to produce useful metric data, we are producing and collecting richer metric…
Monitoring
What did I forget by working for the same company? My Saturday morning coffee is disrupted by this tweet: “xooglers always be like ‘at google we…’ — devonbl A month into my departure from Google, I can relate to this. It annoys me probably more than my current coworkers at AWS because they know it’s ok to make comparisons when…
Observability
Spanner’s SQL Story Spanner is a distributed database Google initiated a while ago to build a highly available and highly consistent database for its own workloads. Spanner was initially built to be a key/value and was in a completely different shape than it is today and it had different goals. Since the beginning…
Distributed Systems
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated over time, but along the way our design mistakes caused data loss and outages. In data-heavy systems, databases are at the core of system design goals and…
Database
Cloud Computing
Google Cloud Run for Go Google Cloud recently launched a fully managed container execution environment called Cloud Run. It is an environment specifically for request-driven workloads. It provides autoscaling, scaling down to zero, pretty fast deployments, automatic HTTPS support, global names and more. Google Cloud Run doesn’t have language runtime restrictions as soon as the…
Google Cloud