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Re: AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

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Post by winthrowe »

loganbertram wrote: post #49

Honest question: why is there so much AWS news up today? I mean, X-Ray is particularly exciting for me, but there are currently 5/30 stories on the front page which are basically just product announcements. I'm pretty new, but is this normal? I thought the basic upvote criteria was meant to be that we should focus on upvoting articles of some depth as well as interest.

AWS major conference/product showcase is going on this week.

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon each dominate the frontpage for several days when their respective developer conferences are ongoing or just completed.

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Post by seanp2k2 »

loganbertram wrote: post #49

Honest question: why is there so much AWS news up today? I mean, X-Ray is particularly exciting for me, but there are currently 5/30 stories on the front page which are basically just product announcements. I'm pretty new, but is this normal? I thought the basic upvote criteria was meant to be that we should focus on upvoting articles of some depth as well as interest.

AWS is having their developer conference this week: https://reinvent.awsevents.com

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Post by iamed2 »

loganbertram wrote: post #49

Honest question: why is there so much AWS news up today? I mean, X-Ray is particularly exciting for me, but there are currently 5/30 stories on the front page which are basically just product announcements. I'm pretty new, but is this normal? I thought the basic upvote criteria was meant to be that we should focus on upvoting articles of some depth as well as interest.

There's a big Amazon event (AWS re:Invent) and they are announcing an extraordinary number of new tools. Think an Apple or Google event but one where they announce a new product every 15 minutes. People with many different kinds of jobs are excited for different reasons. It's double-Christmas for people who work extensively with AWS.

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Post by [deleted] »

loganbertram wrote: post #49

Honest question: why is there so much AWS news up today? I mean, X-Ray is particularly exciting for me, but there are currently 5/30 stories on the front page which are basically just product announcements. I'm pretty new, but is this normal? I thought the basic upvote criteria was meant to be that we should focus on upvoting articles of some depth as well as interest.

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Post by ShakataGaNai »

loganbertram wrote: post #49

Honest question: why is there so much AWS news up today? I mean, X-Ray is particularly exciting for me, but there are currently 5/30 stories on the front page which are basically just product announcements. I'm pretty new, but is this normal? I thought the basic upvote criteria was meant to be that we should focus on upvoting articles of some depth as well as interest.

Today is the second day of AWS Re:Invent. So just like when Apple releases products and the site is slammed with Apple news, these two days are Amazon days. Don't worry, tomorrow will be back to normal.

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Post by cg67 »

msane wrote: post #47
jjoonathan wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say that like their quality doesn't suffer today because of how divided their focus has been in the past :) AWS's crustiness is exactly what I would expect from an agglomeration of adversarial teams each looking to minimize their own liability at the expense of everyone else. Given that they're still organized that way, the surprise would be if they turned the trend around, not if it continued.

Ive been pretty impressed by the latest AWS services. There are a ton of them though. I wouldnt expect anything different from a system designed to accomodate arbitry infrastructure. I'm considering deploying to Lightsail next, which looks like refreshing simplicity for smaller projects.

If you're considering LightSail check out Digital Ocean. They've been offering this style of service longer and offer better performance per dollar.

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Post by inthewoods »

Significant blow to all APM players in the space. Approximately 50% of New Relic's revenue comes from AWS. Datadog just announced their distributed tracing system at $25/host. X-Ray is orders of magnitude cheaper than either - and per trace pricing is something that would be very tough for anyone else to do and plays well to Lambda efforts.

X-Ray seems like a pretty basic service at this point but in my opinion the writing is on the wall for other APM providers. Amazon chose this announcement for a major slot so I expect they'll be investing in the service. As Bezos is often quoted as saying "your margin is my opportunity."

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Post by sciurus »

inthewoods wrote: post #57

Significant blow to all APM players in the space. Approximately 50% of New Relic's revenue comes from AWS. Datadog just announced their distributed tracing system at $25/host. X-Ray is orders of magnitude cheaper than either - and per trace pricing is something that would be very tough for anyone else to do and plays well to Lambda efforts. X-Ray seems like a pretty basic service at this point but in my opinion the w…

For reference: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-apm/

Re: AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

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Post by dgacmu »

devbug wrote: post #16

If you're interested in distributed system tracing there's a lot going on. As a starting point, I would recommend reading Google's paper on their project "Dapper." [1] It's essentially the core of most distributed tracing systems. At least those I've encountered. There's a lot of tooling out there that take their cues from Dapper. I've recently been looking into integrating OpenZipkin[2] with our systems. I see at as…

On the research front, going back prior to Dapper is x-trace: http://www.x-trace.net/wiki/doku.php

and their follow on work, Pivot Tracing: http://pivottracing.io/

(which got a best paper award at SOSP'15.)

Re: AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

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Post by puzzle »

inthewoods wrote: post #57

Significant blow to all APM players in the space. Approximately 50% of New Relic's revenue comes from AWS. Datadog just announced their distributed tracing system at $25/host. X-Ray is orders of magnitude cheaper than either - and per trace pricing is something that would be very tough for anyone else to do and plays well to Lambda efforts. X-Ray seems like a pretty basic service at this point but in my opinion the w…

Where was Datadog's pricing announced?
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