Keynote: Debugging in Prod Without (Lots Of) Pain

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Claims a CNCF‑sandbox project, Pixie, auto‑instruments Kubernetes apps using eBPF and deploys via px deploy in 2–3 minutes, collecting HTTP headers, request bodies, service graphs and per‑pod traces without code changes. Demo surfaces a checkout service with ~1s tail latency from one pod, shows the slow client IP, and exposes call stacks via continuous profiling with flame graphs. All UI views are scriptable via APIs for automation and Slack/bot integration.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:54Key problems
3. 3:52Pixie is an observability platform for developers
4. 11:19Pixie Demo

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