Distributed tracing has become a de-facto standard for monitoring distributed architectures, helping engineers to pinpoint errors and identify performance bottlenecks. Zipkin is one of the popular open source “tracers” available in the market, and I’m now happy to inform our users that we’ve recently introduced a new integration that allows users to easily ship trace data collected by Zipkin to Logz.io!

XDP or Express Data Path arises due to the pressing need for high-performance packet processing in the Linux kernel. Several kernel bypass techniques (DPDK being the most prominent one) aim to accelerate network operations by moving packet processing to user space.

TimescaleDB is an open source database packaged as a Postgres extension that supports time series, but “it looks as if it were just Postgres,” said Timescale’s Head of Product, Diana Hsieh. “So you can actually use the entire ecosystem. You can use all of the functions that are enabled in Postgres – like JSON indexes, relational tables, post JSON – and they all work with Timescale.”