Finding a Needle in a Call Stack - Intro to Distributed Tracing

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Of course, none of the benefits of microservices come without a cost. Networks are unreliable, and correlating thousands or millions of log entries between services can quickly become unmanageable. Therefore, understanding the source of an issue can be like finding a needle in a haystack. This is where distributed tracing comes in! Distributed tracing is the process of tracking requests through their lifetime within a complex distributed system, and has become a critical tool for debugging and understanding microservices.

In this session you will, explore the basics of distributed tracing, take a look at the OpenTracing standard (a vendor neutral framework for distributed tracing instrumentation) and finally be guided through a hands-on look at distributed tracing in action using Jaeger, a popular open source distributed tracing tool which is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. By the end of this session you will not only have a good understanding of distributed tracing, but will be equipped with the knowledge and inspiration to introduce it within your own applications.

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