Cloud Scale Distributed Tracing in Microservices Architectures

软件行业正在使用NetFlix和Google等互联网领导者开创的新软件架构转向Cloud Scale应用程序。一个获得关注的关键模型是转向基于微服务的架构。微服务是一种将软件应用程序开发为一套可独立部署的小型模块化服务的方法，其中每个服务都运行一个独特的流程，并通过定义良好的轻量级机制进行通信，以服务于业务目标。Payara站在这场革命的最前沿，拥有我们的Payara Micro软件。我们在microprofile.io（http：//microprofile.io/）中的领导作用证明了这一点，这是与业界领先的软件公司和用户团体（包括IBM和RedHat）的开放式合作。微服务架构的关键挑战之一是通过分布在网络上的一系列软件组件来跟踪用户请求。我们建议开展创新的工业研究，以调查在云规模下记录、捕获和存储跟踪事件所涉及的技术挑战。研究的目标是确定解决方案的可扩展性，性能和高可用性的挑战，需要建立一个分布式跟踪SAAS。结果将为未来的发展提供信息，以扩展Payara Micro平台，为我们和客户提供跟踪服务。这项新的追踪服务将为Payara带来一条重要的新业务线，为Payara带来经常性出口收入，使我们能够投资于进一步的创新和就业机会，以保持在这项令人兴奋的新技术的最前沿。

The software industry is moving to Cloud Scale applications using new software architectures pioneered by Internet leaders like NetFlix and Google. A key model gaining traction is the move to a microservices based architecture. Microservices are a method of developing software applications as a suite of independently deployable, small, modular services in which each service runs a unique process and communicates through a well-defined, lightweight mechanism to serve a business goal. Payara is at the forefront of this revolution, with our Payara Micro software. Demonstrated by our leading role in microprofile.io (http://microprofile.io/) an open collaboration with industry leading software companies and user groups including IBM and RedHat. One of the key challenges of a microservice architecture is the tracing of user requests through a collection of software components distibuted on the network. We are proposing carrying out innovative industrial research to investigate the technological challenges involved in recording, capturing and storing trace events at cloud scale. The goal of the research would be to identify solutions to the scalability, performance and high availability challenges required to build a distributed tracing SAAS. The results will feed info future development to extend the Payara Micro platform to offer tracing as a service to our and customers. This new tracing service would lead to a significant new business line generating recurring export revenue for Payara enabling us to invest in further innovation and jobs to remain at the forefront of this exciting new technology.