August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 48m
English
In a microservices architecture, a single request can go through several different services and result in writes to several different data stores and event queues. When debugging a production incident, it isn't always clear whether a problem exists in one system or another. This lack of specificity means metrics and logs only form a small part of the picture. Sometimes we need to zoom out and look at the complete life cycle of a request from the user agent to a terminal service and back again.
In 2010, engineers at Google published a paper describing Dapper (https://research.google.com/archive/papers/dapper-2010-1.pdf), a large-scale distributed systems tracing infrastructure. The paper described how Google ...
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