345 Tech Talks

This is the inaugural episode of the 345 Tech Talks podcast. In this episode Andrew and Paul discuss the issue of tracing and debugging microservices in Kubernetes. This is a technical deep dive into a subject that can make or break your ability to build, test and operate a large production system. A while back we wrote an article “Best Practices for Tracing and Debugging Microservices (https://www.345.systems/technical/best-practices-tracing-debugging-microservices/) ” that has turned out to be our most viewed web page ever on the 345 site. The original article is a brief look at some of the main considerations, so when we were looking for a subject for our first podcast episode this was an ideal candidate. Some of the main points from the episode: Building applications in Kubernetes helps with 3 of the 7 Outcomes for Success: Rapid Delivery, Availability & Scalability and Cost Optimised. The ability to read detailed diagnostic information is essential if you are going to build large scale distributed applic