10 months ago

My role as the Director of Platform Engineering at https://salt.security/ lets me pursue my passion for cloud native tech and for solving difficult system-design challenges. One of the recent challenges we solved had to do with visibility into our services.

At the macro level, we needed to monitor and identify problems after making changes in our system.

At the micro level, we needed to be able to zero in on the causes of any problem we identified.

Not only because of the sheer number of services and spans, but also due to the complexity of some flows.