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OpenTracing eBook: Distributed Tracing's Emerging Industry Standard

The Cloud Native movement and migration of applications to microservice architectures require general visibility and observability into software behavior. OpenTracing aims to offer a consistent, unified, and tracer-agnostic instrumentation API for a wide range of frameworks, platforms and programming languages.

The True Cost of the ELK Stack

Despite having an extensive feature set and being open source, organizations are beginning to realize that a free ELK license is not free after all. Rather, it comes with many hidden costs due to hardware requirements and time constraints that easily add to the total cost of ownership (TCO). Here, we uncover the true cost of running the Elastic Stack on your own vs using a hosted log management service.

Leveraging The Microservices Transition With Serverless

As managing legacy monlith applications becomes increasingly cumbersome, many companies are investigating how integrating microservices into their application architecture can solve problems related to maintaining and updating the application, safely adding new features, managing scaleability and onboarding new developers.