What I get is: here's a thing that made a big improvement to how I debug systems.
Except, it turns out that the systems in question are very specific ones.
> The tl;dr is that for each unit-of-work in your system (usually, but not always an HTTP request / response) you emit one “event” with all of the information you can collect about that work.
Okay, but... as opposed to what? And why is it better this way?
>“Event” is an over-loaded term in telemetry so replace that with “log line” or “span” if you like. They are all effectively the same thing.
In the programming I do, "event" doesn't mean anything to do with logging or telemetry.
What I get is: here's a thing that made a big improvement to how I debug systems.
Except, it turns out that the systems in question are very specific ones.
> The tl;dr is that for each unit-of-work in your system (usually, but not always an HTTP request / response) you emit one “event” with all of the information you can collect about that work.
Okay, but... as opposed to what? And why is it better this way?
>“Event” is an over-loaded term in telemetry so replace that with “log line” or “span” if you like. They are all effectively the same thing.
In the programming I do, "event" doesn't mean anything to do with logging or telemetry.