https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Real Time Presentations feed https://www.infoq.com/presentations/eve-observability-head-sampling/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Real+Time-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/eve-observability-head-sampling/en/mediumimage/nicholas-herring-medium-1791444748399.jpg"/><p>Nicholas Herring shares how EVE Online tackles distributed tracing and observability across a 20-year-old MMO architecture. He discusses leveraging head-based, dynamic exponential moving average (EMA), and deterministic sampling techniques to maintain high system fidelity, control telemetry costs, and avoid performance degradation under high-throughput real-time game simulations.</p> <i>By Nicholas Herring</i> QCon London 2026 Observability Distributed Tracing Real Time Transcripts Telemetry Distributed Systems DevOps Architecture & Design Development presentation Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/eve-observability-head-sampling/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Real+Time-presentations Nicholas Herring 2026-10-13T11:00:00Z /presentations/eve-observability-head-sampling/en