microservices

Applications are not easy, tracing is: context propagation

Applications are not easy, tracing is: context propagation

February 17, 2020

A few weeks ago I’ve published my introduction to the tracing with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. I was trying to explain there that tracing has some value even in standalone applications. It was just a recommendation, but today we’re gonna talk about scenarios where tracing is a must: distributed systems.

Applications are not easy, tracing is: a brief introduction to OpenTelemetry

Applications are not easy, tracing is: a brief introduction to OpenTelemetry

February 9, 2020

I have great news! OpenTelemetry will be in beta soon! What does it mean? Well, we can start instrumenting applications directly with OpenTelemetry and we can skip its ancestors.

DAPR: introduction to Distributed Application Runtime

DAPR: introduction to Distributed Application Runtime

January 29, 2020

At the moment, there are no doubts that transformation to the new architectural pattern, microservices architecture, is happening. Today, I don’t want to emphasize that microservices architecture does not solve everything. This transformation is happening and my role here is to show you some possible ways how to minimize the struggle.