In this latest 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
David Marshall is the founder of VMblog.com, one of the industry's longest-running independent publications covering modern data center technologies. What began as a focus on virtualization and cloud computing has expanded to cover the full spectrum of enterprise IT, including AI, security, and DevOps, making VMblog a trusted destination for vendor news, technology analysis, and industry commentary.Beyond publishing, David has spent his career at the intersection of technology and business, inventing, marketing, and launching a number of successful software companies and products, and building a reputation as a skilled marketing executive in the enterprise IT space.David is also a published author, having written two well-regarded books on virtualization and served as technical editor for two "For Dummies" titles covering virtualization and cloud computing. He co-founded CloudCow.com, a publication focused on cloud computing, and has been named a VMware vExpert every year since 2009, one of the longest continuous honoree streaks in the program's history.Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarshall/
