Distributed Microservices Metrics and Tracing with Istio and OpenCensus

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Live demo wires Istio sidecar proxy with OpenCensus auto-instrumentation so network-level traces from Istio and in-process spans from OpenCensus appear in Jaeger together. A simple Node/Go service adds a recursive Fibonacci and sleep; traces grow from ~7–8 spans to ~22 spans and a Prometheus-exposed custom fib counter increments with 100% sampling for the demo. Code runs end-to-end, Node client libraries are still alpha and Prometheus exporter setup is rough but functional.

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1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 1:02Why distributed tracing matters
3. 7:51Business metrics vs infrastructure stats
4. 10:00OpenCensus and Istio overview
5. 13:13Demo setup and network tracing
6. 19:10Adding OpenCensus for code-level tracing
7. 27:08Custom metrics with OpenCensus
8. 35:22Summary and Q&A

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