Why You Should Use Distributed Tracing Tools

In a world where more and more software is being developed using distributed architectures like microservices, developers have lost some of the powerful debugging techniques we once had when we were merely shipping monoliths. Distributed tracing is one technique for retaining the best of both worlds, and in this video we explain why you should use tools like OpenTracing and Zipkin to visualize the flow of activity inside your applications and how they work. Further reading: http://opentracing.io https://zipkin.io/ https://github.com/openzipkin/docker-zipkin https://github.com/petabridge/Petabridge.Tracing.Zipkin - our Zipkin driver. https://phobos.petabridge.com/ - tracing instrumentation for Akka.NET