Distributed Tracing as Architecture by Bart Blommaerts

By now, we all know "BDUF" (Big Design Up Front) and "NDUF" (No Design Up Front) don't work when creating the architecture of a system. We need "JEDUF" (Just Enough Design Up Front) ... unfortunately, nobody knows what "just enough" is. But some vendors can probably sell you a tool for it ... In this talk, I want to give a very pragmatic approach on creating the architecture of a (new) system. And it's not only drawing boxes and lines or pitching some tool. It starts with a short but intense design phase and then validating and evolving the architecture from a running application using distributed tracing. This means the system itself will be the architecture! We will use Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS with XRay as a practical example to explain and visualize the architecture of a cloud-born distributed system.