This episode is a week later than planned, due to me being on holiday. Good for me, not so good for all of you I'm afraid! It'll be weekly from here on out I hope, and I'll get better at letting you know if they'll be any interruptions in service. Anyway, on with the episode details.

I had the chance to visit SoundCloud's Berlin HQ last year, and sat down with Kristof Adriaenssens, an engineer in their Core Engineering team. Among other things he contributes to a project called Zipkin, a distributed tracing tool. We talk about Zipkin itself, the general challenges of managing microservices at scale, and some of the solutions that they have come up with at SoundCloud to handle the complexities.

For more on the Zipkin project: http://zipkin.io/index.html

Brave, the Zipkin Java library: https://github.com/openzipkin/brave

You can follow Kristof over at twitter as @KristofAdr

Or see his Github account at https://github.com/kristofa