Distributed tracing: What it is and why it will become a default tool
An interview with Reshmi Krishna, cloud application and platform architect at Pivotal.
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O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum speaks with Reshmi Krishna, cloud application and platform architect at Pivotal. They discuss:
What is distributed tracing and how does it work? (00:06)
How latency affects a microservices architecture. (01:23)
A good distributed tracing tool lets you explore where latency is occurring. (03:18)
Distributed tracing will become a default. (05:55)
What are the challenges we’re encountering as we move to distributed systems? (07:12)
Microservices adoption will change how teams are structured. (08:53)
The people and projects she’s following. (10:48)
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