Hands-on Workshop: Intro to Hypertrace, a new Open Source Distributed Tracing Platform

Prerequisites: Windows, Mac or Linux computer with ability to run Docker Compose or Kubernetes. Ex: Windows with Docker Desktop

Description: Distributed tracing is used to profile and monitor applications, especially those built using a microservices-based architecture. It helps you pinpoint where, in the chain of API calls, a failures occurs and which API calls cause poor performance. The newest distributed tracing platform is Hypertrace.

Hypertrace (hypertrace.org) is based on the same code that Traceable uses in production (see traceable.ai). It supports traces from OpenTelemetry, OpenCensus, OpenTracing, Zipkin & Jaeger

In this workshop, Dave Nielsen, will lead a hands-on workshop to show developers how to install and use Hypertrace to help debug and optimize their code, and explain how IT and DevOps teams use Hypertrace to monitor applications, debug and monitoring distributed software architectures, such as microservices.

Speaker: Dave Nielsen is head of Community at Traceable. Previously, Head of Community & Developer Advocacy at Redis Labs (also Intel, CloudCamp & PayPal)

Agenda:
4:00 pm Short overview of Distributed Tracing & Hypertrace
4:10 pm Demo: Install Hypertrace & sample microservices app
4:20 pm Workshop: Follow steps to instrument a service
4:50 pm Explore Hypertrace
5:00 pm Raffle - Hypertrace T-shirt, sticker & $50 gift card (your choice)

Learn more about Hypertrace at http://hypertrace.org