Austin Parker

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About Me

yo! I'm Austin, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep, organizer of the Deserted Island DevOps conference, and author of Distributed Tracing in Practice. Outside of that, I'm a prolific poster and commentator on DevOps, technology, and organizational culture. I enjoy tinkering, electronics, and creating a more perfect world.

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Aug 2019 - Present

Principal Developer Advocate, Lightstep

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I wrote about how The Future of Monitoring is Agentless on InfoQ! I discussed the history of monitoring agents, why they're problematic, and innovations in monitoring and observability that will re... I explored some of my thoughts around SLOs and some ways to achieve organizational buy-in around them in Chicken Soup for the SLO on DevOps.com I wrote about Distributed Tracing in OpenTelemetry for The New Stack. I wrote about the importance, and evolution, of Distributed Tracing for The New Stack!