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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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OpenTracing

Before we jump into the exercises, let's talk about the OpenTracing project. In October 2015, Adrian Cole, the lead maintainer of Zipkin, organized and hosted a "Distributed Tracing and Zipkin Workshop" at the Pivotal office in San Francisco. The attendees were a mix of commercial tracing vendors, open source developers, and engineers from a number of companies who were in charge of building or deploying tracing infrastructure in their organizations.

A common theme in the hallway conversations was that the single largest obstacle to the wide adoption of tracing in large organizations was the lack of reusable instrumentation for a vast number of open source frameworks and libraries, due to the absence of standard APIs. It was forcing ...

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ISBN: 9781788628464Supplemental Content