Re: [Python] Reusable Flight Middleware

2021-04-29 Thread David Li
Thanks for the context. I'll be posting later today so I'd appreciate any feedback you have there as well. I agree with the caveat about bridging C++<->Python. I don't think this is accounted for upstream, IIRC the best you can do is ship a span context across the FFI boundary, and otherwise just

Re: [Python] Reusable Flight Middleware

2021-04-29 Thread Eric Henry
Thanks for the response David. That proposal sounds exactly what I'm looking for in terms of middleware. My motivation for tracing comes from previously working within a complex real time orchestration system with 20+ microservices involved in creating various features per request in the system. T

Re: [Python] Reusable Flight Middleware

2021-04-29 Thread David Li
Hey Eric, It so happens that I am literally in the middle of drafting a proposal to the mailing list to integrate with OpenTelemetry on the C++ level. I would fully support having these capabilities for Flight, and I think in the past we've discussed having a contrib directory for such modules, if

[Python] Reusable Flight Middleware

2021-04-29 Thread Eric Henry
Is there currently any interest or effort underway in providing reusable Flight middleware for observability and production usage (e.g. logging, tracing, metrics)? For my own usage and experimentation I created a very basic json logging and OpenTracing implementation, but I was wondering if there