Updates and ideas from Pixie Labs and the Pixienaut developer community

How Kubernetes Made On-Prem Cool Again

In this post, we will discuss the following: The historical advantages and disadvantages to on-prem software deployments. The ways Kubernetes makes it easier to deploy software to on-prem customer…

How etcd works and 6 tips to keep in mind

etcd is a distributed key-value store designed to be a highly available and strongly consistent data store for distributed systems. In fact, by default Kubernetes itself uses etcd to store all of its…

Accelerating the Pixie community with New Relic

We are excited to announce that we signed a definitive agreement to join New Relic -- an outcome we certainly never predicted after only just two years. New Relic’s focus on the developer is…

Zain Asgar, Ishan Mukherjee, Pixie Founding Team

Part 2: Full body HTTP request/responses tracing using eBPF

This is the second in a series of posts in which we share how you can use eBPF to debug applications without recompilation / redeployment. The first post provided a short introduction to eBPF and…

Building Kubernetes Native SaaS applications: iterating quickly by deploying in-cluster data planes

At Pixie, we are working on a Kubernetes native monitoring system which stores and processes the resulting data entirely within a user’s cluster. This is the first in a series of posts discussing…

Announcing Pixie’s Public Beta Launch and Series A

In 2018, we started Pixie to build a magical developer experience to redefine how we explore, monitor, secure, and manage our applications. Today, we’re excited to finally share it with the broader…

Zain Asgar, Ishan Mukherjee

Part 1: Debugging Go in prod using eBPF

This is the first in a series of posts describing how we can debug applications in production using eBPF, without recompilation/redeployment. This post describes how to use gobpf and uprobes to…

Adam Hawkins On Pixie

I, Adam Hawkins , recently tried Pixie. I was instantly impressed because it solved a recurring problem for me: application code changes. Let me explain. As an SRE, I'm responsible for operations…

Getting Your Pixie On: First Steps Installing and Deploying Pixie

This is a guest tutorial by John Arundel, of Bitfield Consulting . Hang on tight as he takes you from zero to Pixie in a few thrill-packed minutes! Introduction Pixie is a new software tool for…