Ben Sigelman on Pivot Tracing [PWL SF] 5/2017

Mini
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Lukasz Jagiello on Fast Inverse Square Root - http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf

Lukasz's Bio

Lukasz Jagiello is an operations engineer at Wikia where he is hard working on saying NO. Between NO and NO he focus his work at modern approach to monitoring and distributed storage

Main Talk
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Ben Sigelman (http://bensigelman.org/) on Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems ( http://pivottracing.io/mace15pivot.pdf )

Ben's Bio

Ben Sigelman is the cofounder and CEO of LightStep (http://lightstep.com/), a performance management solution that ties complex, distributed system performance to business goals and objectives. An expert in distributed tracing, Ben is a coauthor of the OpenTracing (http://opentracing.io/) standard, a Linux Foundation project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF (http://cncf.io/)). Previously, he built Dapper, Google’s production distributed systems tracing infrastructure, and Monarch, Google’s fleet-wide time series collection, storage, analysis, and alerting system. Ben holds a BSc in mathematics and computer science from Brown University.