Where to start
In the previous sections, we discussed techniques that can help with making the tracing rollout a "zero touch" process, that is, without requiring any additional manual work by all the application teams.
Sadly, very often a completely hands-off approach is not feasible, otherwise we would have seen a much higher rate of tracing adoption in the industry. Therefore, since we need to spread the work across the organization, we need to address some organizational questions:
- Where do we start?
- Is it all-or-nothing or can we do an incremental rollout?
- How do we get buy-in from the management and application developers?
Once again, I do not presume to have a rule book that guarantees success. I have, however, observed some common patterns from ...
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