Distributed Tracing - How the Pros Debug Concurrent and Distributed Systems

Explore distributed tracing techniques for debugging complex concurrent and distributed systems in this 57-minute conference talk. Learn about the emerging OpenTracing standard and its implementation through Zipkin. Discover how to instrument applications to visualize operations across process and service boundaries. Gain insights into microservices architecture benefits, trace context, performance analysis, and best practices. Dive into spans, span context, HTTP headers, and filtering techniques. Watch a practical OpenTracing demo and access valuable resources to enhance your debugging skills for modern distributed architectures.

Introduction
Agenda
Quick Show of Hands
Benefits of Microservices
Loss of Coherence
What do we need
The trace context
Performance analysis
Benefits
Different Services
Distributed Tracing Tools
Open Tracing
Tracing
Spans
Span Context
HTTP headers
HTTP header examples
Best practices
Example
Resources
Filtering
Open Tracing Demo