So how much did AWS have to pay to buy the entire front page of HN today?
Some context is that today is one of the days for Amazon re:Invent 2016. https://reinvent.awsevents.com
AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System
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#42This blog post has more info: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-see-inside-of-you... I'll be talking about this on the https://twitch.tv/aws stream at 12:30 pacific if you guys want to ask questions / learn more. (I WORK AT AWS)
Is X-Ray suitable to debug individual incidents, tracing a path of individual user, or only to get an overall view of where the time is being spent?
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#43I haven't used many of the new AWS services. Someone tell me, what's the quality level? I'll be surprised if all the new AWS stuff works that well given how divided their focus must be now.
It depends, but the quality is often MVP level. Some new services are introduced but then virtually abandoned or developed at a snail's pace (Service Catalog, ECS). Sometimes I wish they'd spend more time making the core awesome instead of constantly introducing new services.
Having worked at AWS for a number of years, I had difficulty keeping track of all the new features/services when I was there. If I were still there, I would have given up :-) But I do think that overall, it's better for both the customers and the company.
As to some concerns about diluted focus, service teams operate with great deal of autonomy. From what I have seen, features are driven by teams, and often as a result of conversations with customers.
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#44Re: AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System
#45This blog post has more info: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-see-inside-of-you... I'll be talking about this on the https://twitch.tv/aws stream at 12:30 pacific if you guys want to ask questions / learn more. (I WORK AT AWS)
Is "black box" tracing available, and feasible for production systems without a large perf impact?
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#47I haven't used many of the new AWS services. Someone tell me, what's the quality level? I'll be surprised if all the new AWS stuff works that well given how divided their focus must be now.
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.
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#48Ugh. Of course I read the comments first to see if the article is worth reading and it takes me 10 minutes to realize this is not Amazon's 3D rendering as a service, service..
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#49Honest 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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#50If 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…
Appdash[5] :) [5] https://github.com/sourcegraph/appdash
Somewhat related: https://github.com/Netflix/vizceral