Distributed Tracing: How the Pros Debug Concurrent and Distributed Systems
summary
Explains how to instrument apps with the OpenTracing standard and ship spans to Zipkin or Jaeger so distributed requests are automatically correlated by trace ID / span ID / parent ID; shows an actor demo that produces noisy traces (one example trace 48 ms with 8 spans, another end‑to‑end 210 ms) and how to spot bottlenecks, dead‑lettered messages, and locked actors; covers B3 HTTP headers, sampling, scope managers, and tagging (e.g. customer_id) for searchable diagnostics.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:02Agenda
- 2:32Quick Show of Hands
- 5:54Benefits of Microservices
- 8:55Loss of Coherence
- 13:30What do we need
- 16:47The trace context
- 22:18Performance analysis
- 23:43Benefits
- 24:18Different Services
- 24:51Distributed Tracing Tools
- 25:54Open Tracing
- 27:47Tracing
- 28:32Spans
- 29:03Span Context
- 31:33HTTP headers
- 32:48HTTP header examples
- 33:33Best practices
- 36:12Example
- 47:08Resources
- 47:58Filtering
- 50:30Open Tracing Demo
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