February 11, 2020

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How to build observability into a serverless application

How to build observability into a serverless application

Serverless introduces a number of challenges to existing tools for observability, so you need to adapt your practices to fit this new paradigm. Yan Cui explains how to build observability into a serverless application, demonstrating how to implement log aggregation, distributed tracing, and correlation IDs through both synchronous and asynchronous events.

Talk Title How to build observability into a serverless application
Speakers Yan Cui (DAZN)
Conference O’Reilly Velocity Conference
Conf Tag Build systems that drive business
Location London, United Kingdom
Date October 31-November 2, 2018
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Serverless introduces a number of challenges to existing tools for observability: there’s nowhere to install monitoring agents or daemons, no background processing, higher concurrency to monitoring systems, and lots more asynchronous invocations. As a result, you need to adapt your practices to fit this new paradigm. Yan Cui explains how to build observability into a serverless application, demonstrating how to implement log aggregation, distributed tracing, and correlation IDs through both synchronous and asynchronous events. Topics include:

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