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.