Everything You Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing

Explore the world of distributed tracing in this 39-minute conference talk from Strange Loop. Delve into the challenges of understanding application execution in microservices environments and discover how distributed tracing provides a comprehensive view of complex systems. Learn about tracing patterns, implementation strategies, and their application in large-scale, polyglot environments. Gain insights into the tracing model, its safe use in production for troubleshooting, and diagnostic techniques. Examine the evolution of monitoring tools, the components of a trace, context propagation, and the benefits of OpenTelemetry. Understand the potential of distributed tracing in identifying service performance, analyzing request flows, and overcoming implementation challenges. Presented by Hungai Kevin Amuhinda, a Developer Support Engineer at Lightbend with extensive experience in software engineering and open-source contributions.