Everything OTEL
This protocol-specific endpoint in OpenTelemetry accepts telemetry data (traces, metrics, logs) from instrumented applications. It typically runs on port 4317 for gRPC and 4318 for HTTP.
What is the OTLP Endpoint (or OpenTelemetry Protocol Endpoint)?
This major online travel platform represents Arize's largest contract outside of the US government, helping them monitor and improve their recommendation and search algorithms at massive scale.
What is Booking.com?
These three major cloud providers offer managed Kubernetes services, handling the control plane while you manage your workloads. Name all three non abbreviated service names.
What are GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), and EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service)?
This fundamental programming principle states that every piece of knowledge should have a single, unambiguous representation in a system. It reduces redundancy and makes code easier to maintain by avoiding duplication.
What is DRY (or Don't Repeat Yourself)?
This iconic Spanish rice dish from Valencia traditionally features saffron, vegetables, and various proteins cooked in a wide, shallow pan. Bourdain called it "a perfect communal dish" and warned never to add chorizo to the traditional version.
What is Paella?
The OpenTelemetry Collector consists of these three main components that form a pipeline: they receive data, transform or filter it, and then send it to various backends.
What are Receivers, Processors, and Exporters?
This consumer goods company, the largest manufacturer by market cap among Arize customers, uses the platform to monitor AI models across their diverse portfolio of household brands.
What is Procter & Gamble (or P&G)?
This networking component distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers or instances to ensure high availability, prevent overload, and improve application performance in cloud architectures.
What is a Load Balancer?
This programming paradigm organizes code around objects that contain data (attributes) and code (methods). Its four main principles are encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction.
What is Object-Oriented Programming (or OOP)?
This Brazilian national dish is a hearty black bean stew with various cuts of pork and beef, traditionally served with rice, collard greens, and farofa. Bourdain called it "the perfect hangover cure" during his Brazil episodes.
What is Feijoada?
In OpenTelemetry, the Tracer Provider follows this design pattern to ensure only one instance exists throughout the application, managing all tracer creation and configuration globally.
What is Singleton (or the Singleton Pattern)?
Arize serves a global customer base. Name at least 3 Arize customers that are headquartered outside of the United States.
Answer: [To be verified by Dat - any 3 international customers]
Arize uses this latest version of the cryptographic protocol to secure data transmission between services, providing enhanced security and performance over previous versions.
What is TLS 1.3?
This software testing method involves testing individual components or functions in isolation to ensure they work correctly. It forms the base of the testing pyramid and helps catch bugs early in development.
What is Unit Testing?
These grilled chicken skewers, cooked over charcoal and served at specialized stalls and izakayas, range from thigh meat to more adventurous parts. Bourdain called the smoke-filled joints serving this food "church" and loved pairing them with cold beer.
What is Yakitori?
This YAML file in the OpenTelemetry Collector defines pipelines, specifying how telemetry data flows from receivers through processors to exporters, enabling routing of traces to multiple destinations.
What is config.yaml (or the Collector configuration file)?
While Arize serves many enterprise clients, they also support smaller businesses. Name at least 5 SMB (Small and Medium Business) customers using the Arize platform.
Answer: [To be verified by Dat - any 5 SMB customers]
Modern cloud architectures rely on these services for analytics and big data processing. Name at least 2 major cloud data warehousing solutions.
What are Snowflake, BigQuery (GBQ), Redshift, and [one more like Databricks, Synapse, or Teradata]?
This practice automates the building, testing, and deployment of code changes. It allows teams to frequently merge code changes into a central repository and automatically deploy to production after passing tests.
What is CI/CD (or Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment)?
This Turkish dish of seasoned meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie and served in bread or on a plate became a global street food phenomenon. Bourdain enjoyed late-night versions in Istanbul, calling them "the perfect drunk food."
What is Kebab (or Döner Kebab)?
In OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing context is propagated between services differently based on protocol: HTTP passes it through these, while gRPC uses metadata. Name both propagation mechanism for both of these transport mechanisms (2 part answer)
What are HTTP Headers and gRPC Metadata?
On-Premise Deployments Question: For customers with strict data residency or security requirements, Arize offers on-premise deployments. Name at least 4 customers that have chosen this deployment option.
Answer: [To be verified by Dat - any 4 on-prem customers]
In enterprise development, different language types serve different purposes. Name 2 compiled languages (converted to machine code before execution) and 2 interpreted languages (executed line by line).
What are [Compiled: C++, Go, Rust, Java, C#] and [Interpreted: Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP]? (any 2 of each)
This architectural style structures applications as a collection of small, independent services that communicate via APIs. Each service is responsible for a single business function and can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently.
What is Microservices Architecture?
This spicy Vietnamese beef noodle soup from the former imperial capital features lemongrass, shrimp paste, and thick rice noodles. Bourdain considered it superior to pho and called it "the greatest soup in the world."
What is Bún bò Huế?