April Meetup: Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTracing
Details
This month, we are excited to welcome back Jeffrey Dorrycott, who will be speaking on distributed tracing, with food and drinks sponsored by WP Engine.
As the popularity of microservice architectures has increased across the industry, driving to well distributed systems that have intricate interactions to satisfy common user journeys -- so too has the complexity of tracing workflows for troubleshooting performance issues.
The wide array of tracing services on offer can seem an unnavigable maelstrom to some, or a promising future to others, but even the shiniest branding pages will still leave you with important questions.
What unique benefits does instrumenting tracing into my system get me over conventional logging? Where should I instrument tracing into my application?
Can I just use Istio? Who is Jaeger Zipkin, and why do they want so many ports open?
This demonstration will answer those questions as we walk through the Go distributed tracing landscape how to instrument your code so you can get started tracing your own services.
Sponsor:
This month, our food/drink sponsor is WP Engine. Every day WP Engine serves more than 4,000,000,000 requests for the hundreds of thousands of WordPress websites we host for our 75,000+ customers in over 130 countries. We recently passed $100,000,000 in recurring revenue and secured a $250 million investment from Silver Lake. We’re currently building out our next generation platform which relies heavily on Go and Kubernetes. We’re actively hiring great engineers who want to work on problems at scale. In addition to the usual benefits like health insurance, generous vacation, and stock options, we offer catered lunch 4 days a week and 24x7 parking downtown. For more information visit https://wpengine-careers.com/office-location/austin/.
The space is provided by the Capital Factory.
Schedule:
• 6:30-7:00 - Meet and greet, eat pizza, drink beer (responsibly!)
• 7:00-9:00 - Presentation and discussions
Location:
We are located at the Capital Factory. We're in the same building as the Omni Hotel, but on the business side (Austin Centre). This month, we will be meeting in the room "Antone's" on the 16th floor.
Parking:
Capital Factory offers validated parking for $7 if you park after 5pm and leave before 10pm. Details and other parking options are located here: https://www.capitalfactory.com/parking/
Accessibility:
There is a step-free entrance to the building at the main Omni Hotel entrance located at 8th St. and San Jacinto Blvd (next to the valet stand).
Code of Conduct:
We intend to maintain a friendly and welcoming environment for everyone attending. As such, we have adopted the Go Community Code of Conduct (https://golang.org/conduct). Please report any unwelcome behavior to the meetup organizers or to the Golang CoC Working Group (conduct@golang.org).