codefromthecrypt

I've had many people ask me questions about OpenTracing, often in relation to OpenZipkin. I've seen assertions about how it is vendor neutral and is the lock-in cure. This post is not a sanctioned, polished or otherwise muted view, rather what I personally think about what it is and is not, and what it helps and does not help with. Scroll to the very end if this is too long. Feel free to add a comment if I made any factual mistakes or you just want to add a comment.

So, what is OpenTracing?

OpenTracing is documentation and library interfaces for distributed tracing instrumentation. To be "OpenTracing" requires bundling its interfaces in your work, so that others can use it to time distributed operations with the same library.

So, who is it for?

OpenTracing interfaces are targeted to authors of instrumentation libraries, and those who want to collaborate with traces created by them. Ex something started a trace somewhere and I add a notable event to that trace. Structure logging was recently added to O

pcn

#!/usr/bin/env python

# pragma pylint: disable=bad-whitespace
###############################################################################
# ntpq.py - Python NTP control library.
# Copyright (C) 2016 Peter C. Norton (@pcn on github)
#
# this addition to ntplib is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)

woodja

#include <iostream>
using std::cout;
using std::cerr;
using std::endl;

#include <string>
using std::string;

#include "cryptlib.h"
using CryptoPP::Exception;

railwaycat

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Emacs starter for Emacs mac port

# Thanks to Aquamacs Project and David Reitter

my $args = "";
my $tmpfiles = "";

for my $f (@ARGV) {

stevenh512

Gemfile.lock

mentat

"""
Thanks to rafek@google.com (Rafe Kaplan) for this tip.

Create a .proto file from a module containing ProtoRPC Message
classes.
"""
import logging

from protorpc import descriptor
from protorpc import generate