A Short Primer on Building a Distributed Tracing MVP

Hello all. Disclaimer, I do indeed work at LightStep currently.

We're hoping to produce more technical content in the future and hoping to spur conversations about distributed tracing, but I thought this was a neat short read on how to move forward with tracing in a pragmatic manner.

I didn't use the article title since I thought seeing the 50 LOC thing would give the expectation of there being code samples which there unfortunately are not (proprietary work and all).

If this article piques your curiosity please feel free to check out our open source tracing repositories [0] as well as some OSS solutions like Jaegar [1] and Zipkin [2].

[0] - https://github.com/lightstep [1] - https://www.jaegertracing.io/ [2] - https://zipkin.io/