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100% if you manage to get opentrace to work, it is a brilliant debug tool

• eatonphil 6y ago
  You can also just propagate a uuid throughout your system. I've used both uuids and opentrace. Just don't get hung up if opentrace seems too complex.
  • dkarl 6y ago
    I agree with this wholeheartedly. You can even define a standard and let downstream services opt in over time. Simple wins like this should not be put off because "someday" we're going to implement a complex distributed tracing solution.
    • dillonmckay 6y ago
      So, in terms of full implementation, is the constraint the dev time to implement, or getting various factions to agree to something? I guess, is it political, or technical? Asking for a friend. Thanks!
      • nitrogen 6y ago
        Often it's political, but political friction can feed into technical friction if there are also a half dozen different half wrappers around half-baked HTTP libraries. Also, if someone has included OpenTracing as a shadow library in a company-wide library (JVM territory), but you want it as a top-level dependency, you have to write translators.