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The book is intended for a wide range of audiences interested in solving the observability challenges in complex distributed systems. Some familiarity with the existing monitoring tools, such as metrics, is useful, but not required. Most code examples are written in Java, so a basic level of reading Java code is required.
The included exercises make heavy use of Docker and docker-compose to bring up various third-party dependencies, such as MySQL and Elasticsearch databases, Kafka and Zookeeper, and various observability tools like Jaeger, Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus. A working installation of Docker is required to run most of the examples.
I strongly advise you to not only try running and playing with the provided ...
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