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Integrating the OpenTelemetry JavaScript SDK with AWS X-Ray

In this blog post, AWS intern Cong Zou shares his experience contributing to a large open source project—OpenTelemetry—for the first time. OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from applications. Users can analyze these traces and metrics using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools. […]

article lead image: examples of the implementation drawn from a sample shopping cart microservice

Simplifying serverless best practices with Lambda Powertools

Modern applications are increasingly relying on compute platforms based on containers and serverless technologies to provide scalability, cost efficiency, and agility. Although this shift toward more distributed architectures has unlocked many benefits, it has also introduced new complexity in how the applications are operated. In times past, debugging was as straightforward as logging into the […]

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Tracing End-to-End Performance of Messaging Applications Built on Apache Kafka Using AWS X-Ray

Developers are using microservices architecture to build large and complex distributed applications. Distributed applications provide flexibility to isolate issues to a specific microservice, and optimize that microservice independent of other microservices. While such distributed applications scale well, it can be challenging to identify performance issues in disparate parts of the application. AWS X-Ray helps developers […]

Open Source News Roundup: February 9, 2018

^ The Capital One Cloud Custodian Team Community Coding at the Cloud Custodian Code Day Capital One hosted their first ever community coding event at AWS re:Invent 2017, to bring current and aspiring contributors together in single location to spend a concentrated period of time hands-on with the code. Read more about it in the […]

Open Source News Roundup: January 14, 2018

A regular roundup of open source news from us that you might have missed. Instrumenting Web Apps Using AWS X-Ray A step-by-step walkthrough for enabling X-Ray tracing in the Go programming language. Use these steps to add X-Ray tracing to any distributed application. – AWS Devops blog Now available in Amazon SageMaker: DeepAR algorithm for […]