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skr··on Zipkin - distributed tracing by Twitter (aka Google Dapper)
We came up with the name by putting all kinds of words into Google translate and making sure they weren't trademarked. Zipkin seemed short and sweet and wasn't widely used before.
skr··on Zipkin - distributed tracing by Twitter (aka Google Dapper)
I'm working on writing up how to add tracing to a library/protocol. Should be in the readme later today.