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Dec 20, 2022 · Operations

How We Scaled SkyWalking to Billions of Segments: A Full‑Stack Monitoring Journey

This article recounts a year‑long, hands‑on experience of deploying and continuously optimizing Apache SkyWalking for full‑link monitoring in a large micro‑service environment, covering the motivations, architecture choices, pre‑research, POC integration, and a series of performance‑tuning steps that reduced segment storage from billions to millisecond‑level query latency.