I'm Kristof and I learned about Zipkin and the Dapper paper in 2013 while working at Tomtom in Belgium. I'm the original author of Brave. I built Brave so I could get insight into our services and reuse the Twitter components (collector, web, ui). I remember how amazed I was when I could first visualize production requests and how what we built was way more complex as I had imagined :)
It is because of my work on Brave that I got noticed by and got in contact with SoundCloud. I joined SoundCloud in September 2014 and moved to Berlin. One of the first things I did at SoundCloud was packaging and deploying the Zipkin components and enabling our Finagle services to start sending spans. After the initial set up I started working on other things and our Zipkin set up remained stagnant for a long time. When Adrian got involved with Zipkin he reached out to me and soon started contributing to Brave and the other Zipkin projects. I was impressed from the start with how Adrian reached out and involved the community, set out the direction, and brought the project where it is now. In July 2015 I moved Brave from my personal GitHub to OpenZipkin. I kept working on Brave till probably around end 2015 and stopped most involvement after that point because of other priorities at work and in my private life. I kept following Zipkin and the Distributed Tracing space from a distance and got a bit more involved again recently as part of Using Kubernetes Pod Metadata to Improve Zipkin Traces <https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/using-kubernetes-pod-metadata-to-improve-zipkin-traces> . I have used many Apache projects throughout my career, as most of you probably, but I was never part of transitioning a project into a ASF project. Cheers, Kristof Op di 30 okt. 2018 om 14:22 schreef Adrian Cole <[email protected]>: > Sounds funny to do this, but a chat conversation made me realize we > may never meet each other in person. For those who are comfortable > introducing themselves including where they live on a public forum, > I'd welcome this, especially IPMC. No pressure if you feel > uncomfortable. > > I'll start. > > I'm Adrian and I accidentally walked in to tracing while working at > Twitter when I lived in San Francisco. The project was a few years > old, but needed re-owning.. since then (about March 2015), I've not > stopped working on Zipkin. I moved companies to Pivotal, then moved to > Georgetown Malaysia as well. It is easy for me to work on Zipkin > because Pivotal sponsors my salary and routinely covers my travel to > things like workshops and such. I'm very grateful for that. Truth be > told, I am most interested in the community itself, you all keep me > engaged even during the hard times of which there are many :P So, > thanks.. > > I had experience in Apache before as I founded Apache jclouds. I am > not completely happy with how I handled the transition into the > incubator. I was impatient and sometimes not nice during the stressful > moments, so I stepped down. I harbor some guilt about that still, > though I try to shake it off for experience. Best advice I can give to > folks new to the process is to be patient through acclimation and > remember ASF is a volunteer organization. Anyway, I'm back and aim to > be a better me. > > /me steps away from the (re)introduction mic > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
