February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
444 pages
11h 36m
English
In the first exercise, we are going to run a simple, single-process "Hello" application, and review its source code, so that we can later instrument it for distributed tracing. The application is implemented as a web service, which we can access by sending it HTTP requests like this:
$ curl http://localhost:8080/sayHello/John Hello, John! $ curl http://localhost:8080/sayHello/Margo Hello, Margo!
The application has some creepy big brother tendencies, however, by occasionally volunteering additional knowledge about the person:
$ curl http://localhost:8080/sayHello/Vector Hello, Vector! Committing crimes with both direction and magnitude! $ curl http://localhost:8080/sayHello/Nefario Hello, Dr. Nefario! Why ... ...