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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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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 ...

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