Distributed tracing for Node.js

Distributed tracing is a very useful practice for Node.js because it gives you a good visibility over the way your async code executes and the lifecycle of your external calls as they travels between many services.

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1. Distributed Tracing in Node.js @stoitsev
2. post “Pimping the Feedback Loop”
7. Distributed tracing is very very useful for Node.js
8. every other service in the company services you know
11. Why distributed tracing for Node.js
13. Asynchronous execution
14. Web UI
15. NGINX NGINX NGINX HAProxy HAProxy Backend
16. Tools
17. Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html
18. http://opentracing.io/
22. http://zipkin.io/
24. Jaeger https://github.com/uber/jaeger
28. https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/
29. npm install --save jaeger-client
34. Play with distributed tracing https://github.com/uber/jaeger/tree/master/examples/hotrod
35. Thanks!