Distributed tracing with Rust

Distributed tracing with Rust, Actix, Lapin with context propagation between multiple services.

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Start the services:

First, start postgres, rabbit and zipkin with docker compose:

• DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up --build

Then start both services:

• DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:password@127.0.0.1:5432/postgres cargo run --bin service1
• cargo run --bin service2

Test

To send a test request:

• curl -d '{"content": "write an article about distributed tracing", "owner": "rlebran"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:8081/v1/todo