Prashansa Kulshrestha
Senior Software Engineer @ Kong
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Prashansa Kulshrestha is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Kong, where she focuses on CLI tools to build and manage Kong Gateway in a declarative way.
In the past, she has worked at Postman in the Reliability Engineering team for 4 years. Thus, her mindset is observability-first. She is interested in Linux and cloud-native tech since her college.
Her current fascination is learning more about the intricacies of an API gateway. If not working, you will find her reading with a cup of coffee or browsing new places to dine at.
With Great Traces Comes Great Costs: How to Reduce that Bill?
Is Distributed Tracing an observability essential or just a high-maintenance diva?
Hardly, anyone wants to compromise on a trace. For an adventure, try tracing everything and watch your cloud bill explode. Yes! All those spans that you decide to keep are expensive. If you use an external APM provider, god help you before you break your bank. While tracing has solved a number of problems, the cost problem is genuine and it keeps increasing with scale. In this presentation, Prashansa narrates her experiences when she was trying to balance the costs while keeping the traces sane. It’s a humorous journey lined with some failed experiments, small peaks of joy, troughs of sorrow and finally tumbling upon a good enough solution. Join her to know how you can also maintain good and sane enough tracing with a manageable bill, with some span tweaking magic, custom sampling algorithm and fully utilising OpenTelemetry capabilities. Trace smarter to save better.
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