Jaeger V2 Unveiled: Distributed Tracing Powered by OpenTelemetry

In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, Dotan Horovits sits down with Yuri Shkuro, the creator of Jaeger, to unveil the highly anticipated Jaeger V2. This major release introduces a new architecture with deep OpenTelemetry integration, which promises more flexibility, performance, extensibility and ease of use. Join us as Yuri shares insider details on the challenges, innovations, and roadmap for Jaeger V2 towards a more efficient and scalable distributed tracing solution.

Yuri is a software engineer who works on distributed tracing, observability, reliability, and performance problems, currently working at Meta; author of the book "Mastering Distributed Tracing"; creator of Jaeger, an open source distributed tracing platform originally developed at Uber; co-founder of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry CNCF projects; member of the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group.

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00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Open Source Observability Day
01:46 - Episode and guest intro
04:37 - Jaeger v1.x highlights
09:04 - Jaeger scope evolution from instrumentation to backend
13:36 - Jaeger v2 - why now?
20:26 - New architecture for V2 - learnings for SW engineering
26:53 - Jaeger persistence layer, and do we need tracing-specialized database?
35:35 - extending OpenTelemetry to manage storage for Jaeger
38:57 - RC1 is out, when is GA expected and what's expected?
43:24 - Breaking changes and migration path from v1 to v2
48:31 - What's expected for Jaeger UI
51:24 - New contributors joining through mentorship programs
54:47 - Observability at Meta/Facebook: machine learning, correlation, OpenTelemetry
1:01:04 - Outro

Dotan Horovits
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Yuri Shkuro
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