Operational and Business Insights from Tracing Distributed Microservices

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Shows a working OpenShift demo using Hawkular APM as an OpenTracing-compliant tracer, a Vert.x microservice set, and a load script that generates orders. Captures spans named place order and derives business metrics (43% failures due to "item not found") from trace aggregations. Uses trace context propagation across services, inspects individual traces, and runs a canary with 20% traffic to compare versions before scaling; instrumentation adds measurable but controllable overhead.

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1. 0:00Distributed tracing intro
2. 2:15Tracing code execution
3. 4:45Tracing in microservices
4. 6:32OpenTracing and HawtIO APM
5. 7:16Demo goals and business insights
6. 9:06Java tracing walkthrough
7. 11:23Demo environment setup
8. 12:29Tracing order placement
9. 15:44Spans in HawtIO APM
10. 17:39Business insights from traces
11. 19:05Operational insights with canary
12. 20:32Canary release deployment
13. 22:45Performance comparison
14. 24:06Scaling and retiring versions
15. 26:06Summary and OpenTracing resources
16. 27:14Q&A on tracing overhead

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