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Mastering Distributed Tracing
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Mastering Distributed Tracing

by Yuri Shkuro
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
444 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1. Why Distributed Tracing?

Why Distributed Tracing?

Modern, internet-scale, cloud-native applications are very complex distributed systems. Building them is hard and debugging them is even harder. The growing popularity of microservices and functions-as-a-service (also known as FaaS or serverless) only exacerbates the problem; these architectural styles bring many benefits to the organizations adopting them, while complicating some of the aspects of operating the systems even further.

In this chapter, I will talk about the challenges of monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems, including those built with microservices, and discuss how and why distributed ...

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ISBN: 9781788628464Supplemental Content