Testing Microservices – Trace Based Integration Testing Example
Microservices architectures require a new type of testing. Here’s why traditional testing types fail and which new automated testing solutions can help.
Helping Go teams implement OpenTelemetry: A new approach
Developers can instrument their Go applications quickly and easily using Helios OpenTelemetry (OTel), the emerging industry standard for application observability and distributed tracing across cloud-native and distributed architectures, is becoming an essential tool for Go developers. However, implementing OTel with Go to send data to observability platforms is hardly a straightforward process. At Helios, we’re […]
Unlock the power of OpenTelemetry and Helios through the OTel community demo
Developers can now experience hands-on the combined value of OTel and Helios when building distributed applications with this OTel community demo OpenTelemetry (OTel), the emerging industry standard for collecting observability data, recently announced the GA of its demo application – and this is good news for distributed tracing fans. Developers can now get a […]
Jaeger Tracing: Pros, Cons, Alternatives and Best Practices
Jaeger and Helios both offer distributed tracing capabilities. Look into the pros and cons of each for visualization, testing, APIs & replays.
OpenTelemetry Java – Your Guide to Getting Started
Learn to deploy OpenTelemetry with Java to collect services data. Use Jaeger Helios and other tools and troubleshoot with distributed tracing
5 Microservices Challenges and Blindspots for Developers
Microservices development top 5 challenges and solutions: testing, observability, troubleshooting & debugging, services communication and operations.
Why APM distributed tracing is not enough for developers
What is Distributed Tracing? Distributed tracing is a method of tracking requests as they propagate through a distributed system. A trace is built from spans. Each span represents an interaction, like an HTTP request, a DB query, a serverless function invocation, etc. A trace is essentially a tree of spans. Based on the collected span […]
Developers vs. DevOps –
the case for developer ownership
Cloud-native architectures separated developer roles from DevOps. Is this right or should developers have more ownership of their code in microservices?
Instrumenting your webpack-bundled JS code
Webpack and OpenTelemetry clash, but there are ways they can work together. Read how to unlock OTel observability when using Node.js code bundled with webpack.
Observability – for your test runs too
When testing distributed applications, logs and traces generated from microservices are often not available, leaving developers in the dark. Here’s how test instrumentation with OpenTelemetry helps solve this challenge. “Cloud native” – working in distributed systems using microservices and DevOps – has promised a lot, and indeed delivered a lot. Among the biggest benefits, […]
