Ad hoc analysis
In October 2018, the members of the tracing team from Facebook gave a presentation at the Distributed Tracing – NYC meetup [2], where they talked about a new direction that they are taking with their tracing system, Canopy. While not based on open source technologies like Apache Flink, the feature extraction framework in Canopy was conceptually similar to the approach we presented in this chapter.
The API for building new feature extractions was open to all Facebook engineers, but it often had a steep learning curve and required fairly deep familiarity with the overall tracing infrastructure and its data models. More importantly, new feature extractors had to be deployed in production as part of Canopy itself, which meant the Canopy ...
Get Mastering Distributed Tracing now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
