Product Manager Morgan McLean and Software Engineer JBD join Melanie and Mark this week to discuss the new open source project OpenCensus, a single distribution of libraries for metrics and distributed tracing with minimal overhead that allows you to export data to multiple backends.

Morgan McLean

Morgan McLean is the Product Manager for Tracing, Debugging, and Profiling at Google, including OpenCensus

JBD

JBD leads the OpenCensus Go and our integrations with other projects.

Cool things of the week

Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes blog github
TensorFlow 1.6 release summit
TensorFlow Object Detection on iOS youtube
Optimizing your Cloud Storage performance: Google Cloud Performance Atlas blog
Introducing GCP’s new interactive CLI blog docs

Interview

OpenCensus site docs
Github Organisation github
How Google uses Census internally blog
The value of OpenCensus blog
Tracing
- Zipkin site
- Stackdriver site docs
- jaeger github
Metrics
- Stackdriver docs
- Prometheus site
Google Summer of Code site

OpenCensus

Question of the week

I heard there are abilities to natively extend Kubernetes - what does that mean, and also how do I do that?

Where can you find us next?

Mark will be at the Game Developer’s Conference | GDC in March. You can find him via the Google at GDC 2108 site.

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OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBD