Distributed tracing as architecture

src: Distributed Tracing as Architecture by Bart Blommaerts

Abstract

Architecture

architecture	← has an	system
is documented for | v		is made for | v
architectural description	documents for →	stakeholder
uses | v
views
are shaped by | v
perspectives

• BDUF - Big Design Up Front
  • can be useful for some scenarios, e.g. building a rocket
• NDUF - No Design Up Front
• JEDUF: Just ENough Design Up Front
• OODA: Observe → Orient → Decide → Act
  • at every step, we can have feedback and go back to the observe step

Distributed tracing

Distributed tracing is a method of observing requests as they progapate through distributed cloud environments.

The presenter was demonstrating the usage of tracing with AWS.

You can use this tracing to screenshot the flows in your architecture document as a simple diagram.