A distributed system is a community of impartial providers that work collectively to attain a typical purpose. Not like a monolithic system, a distributed system has no central level of management, which means it should deal with challenges like information consistency, community latency, and system failures.
Debugging distributed techniques is conventionally thought-about difficult as a result of trendy architectures encompass quite a few microservices speaking throughout networks, making failures tough to isolate. The challenges and upkeep burdens can enlarge as techniques develop in measurement and complexity.
Julia Blase is a Product Supervisor at Chronosphere the place she works on options to assist builders troubleshoot distributed techniques extra effectively, together with Differential Prognosis, or DDx. DDx supplies tooling to troubleshoot distributed techniques, and emphasizes automation and developer expertise. On this episode Julia joins Sean Falconer to speak concerning the challenges and rising methods to troubleshoot distributed techniques.
Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Chronosphere.
