Distributed Tracing: from Chaos to Clarity | Billie Thompson

Ever felt lost in your microservices architecture, unable to tell which requests go where? This talk will give you a practical guide on how to clarify where requests go, and how to visualise them. This talk will help you make the case for OpenTracing, giving you a short tour of the current tracing options. Moving on it will give you practical implementation advice including common problems such as high load and event-based systems, as well as diving into the future of tracing with the increasing adoption of FaaS. This is a practical talk aimed at people near the code.