About Austin Parker

Austin Parker has been solving - and creating - problems with computers and technology for most of his life. He is the Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep and maintainer on the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. His professional dream is to build a world where we're able to create and run more reliable software. In addition to his professional work, he's taught college classes, spoken about all things DevOps and Distributed Tracing, and even found time to start a podcast. Austin is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Distributed Tracing in Practice, available in early 2020 from O'Reilly Media.

OpenTelemetry is Fundamental to Cloud- and AI-Native Developers

OpenTelemetry is the crux of the observability story when it comes to cloud-native and AI-native applications.

By |2023-10-05T16:06:40-04:00October 6, 2023|Application development, Cloud-Native Architecture, Cloud-Native Development, Features, Observability, Topics|Comments Off on OpenTelemetry is Fundamental to Cloud- and AI-Native Developers
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Observability at the Edge with OpenTelemetry

Over the past two years, our world has experienced drastic [...]

By |2021-10-01T07:16:50-04:00September 16, 2021|Cloud-Native Networking, Cloud-Native Platforms, Editorial Calendar, Features, KubeCon NA 2021, Kubernetes at the Edge, Topics|Comments Off on Observability at the Edge with OpenTelemetry
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Observability: Solving The Hidden Cost of Kubernetes Applications

Observability seeks to resolve cost-related dilemmas by focusing on the [...]

By |2020-04-15T20:08:54-04:00April 16, 2020|Cloud-Native Development, Features, Topics|Comments Off on Observability: Solving The Hidden Cost of Kubernetes Applications
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Containerized Application Management

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