From its birth in a microservice to its end in storage, a log message in a modern distributed system travels through a labyrinth of computing abstractions. Although these abstractions empower developers to construct large performant systems, they typically become very complicated when integrated together. In this presentation, Josef Karásek and Kyle Liberti will map the journey of a log message as it traverses a distributed data streaming pipeline built from Apache Kafka and OpenShift Origin. Then, they will demonstrate this system’s elegance as they flood it with traffic.
