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Distributed Tracing in Practice

Errata for Distributed Tracing in Practice

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 24
2nd to last paragraph in the `Don't neglect to set "rules of the road"` section

Really enjoying the book!

While reading, I came across what seems like a very minor typo, where in the 2nd to last paragraph on page 24 in the "rules of the road section", the last sentence reads:

"Chapter 4 will dive in deeper to a variety of open source frameworks for distributed tracing; we'd suggest using one of those."

As far as I can tell, it's Chapter 3 ("Open Source Instrumentation: Interfaces, Libraries, and Frameworks") that covers the frameworks, not Chapter 4 ("Best Practices for Instrumentation"). As I mentioned, a very minor typo, but figured I'd flag it.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Good catch!

Page 24, the last sentence of the paragraph under the italicized heading "Don't neglect to set 'rules of the road'" should refer to Chapter 3 instead of Chapter 4.

Alex Ellis  May 24, 2021 
Printed
Page 37
3rd paragraph

Apologies in advance for another minor nit, but in the 3rd paragraph on page 37, the text reads:

“The OpenTelemetry API provides three major things: distributed context propagation, management, application tracing, and application metrics. We’ll focus on the first two in this book.”

Should there be an “and” instead of a comma between “propagation” and “management”? As written it looks like a list of four things, but it seems like distributed context management is supposed to be grouped with propagation (to make it three items).

Note from the Author or Editor:
Page 37, Paragraph 3 should read "The OpenTelemetry API provides three major things: distributed context propagation management, application tracing, and application metrics. We'll focus on the first two in this book."

Alex Ellis  May 30, 2021