Chapter 15. Afterword
Congratulations, you have reached the end of the book! Sometimes, when I finish a book, I think, finally, it's over! Other times, I think, wait, it's over? I wish there was more! So, which "R" are you filled with: relief, or regret?
We covered a lot of ground in this book. I am confident that you have a much better understanding of distributed tracing, which is a fairly complex and often challenging field. I am also confident that you still have many questions. I still have many questions myself as well! Tracing is still a very new field, and with many more people getting into it, I expect to see a lot of innovation.
My team at Uber has pretty grandiose plans for the future of tracing. Uber's architecture is growing more and more complex every day, counting thousands of microservices and spanning many data centers. It is becoming obvious that managing this infrastructure in an automated fashion requires new techniques...
