[crandycodes]

As someone who's needed to maintain complex, high-performance database drivers that needed to work across a bunch of different platforms, I've been following them and their predecessors of OpenTracing/OpenCensus. The problem that's always been interesting to me as a library maintainer is consistency across platforms and well maintained multi-platform libraries.

I hadn't really found an acceptable solution that would work across Java, Node.js, browser, and so on. We'd invented our own formats and then we owned all the integration problems with various monitoring tools. I left the team before we started to adopt, but they've started doing it and it looks like it's help with reducing integration burden. I also think using someone else's opinionated library can help avoid bikeshedding on concepts not related to your core value.