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How to Make Things Faster
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How to Make Things Faster

by Cary Millsap
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
5h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 26. Identifying Experiences

In all my years of tracing Oracle, the hardest part has been knowing where in the trace stream the users’ experiences begin and end. My colleague Jeff Holt and I have developed some tricks to figure it out, but the best way to know it is to have your software mark those events for you. Oracle has some good tools for doing it, but most application developers don’t use them.

It’s not enough just to make tools available to developers; those developers also have to have the will and the skill to use them. I’m optimistic, though, because I see good people working on the right problem. The OpenTelemetry standard, for example, has the right ingredients for accomplishing the goal of identifying individual user experiences.

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