Jaeger's Google Summer of Code 2023 projects

[yurishkuro]

Applications will be open from March-20 to April-4: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

I've proposed two projects I can sponsor:

• ClickHouse as a core storage backend #4196 (selected)
• [Feature]: Visualize Critical Path of a trace jaeger-ui#1288 (open via LFX Mentorship)

All of CNCF projects: https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/blob/main/summerofcode/2023.md#jaeger

[haanhvu]

@yurishkuro Hi, I have a question about the ClickHouse project.

You mentioned that we need something like OTel Collector ClickHouse exporter to deal with batch inserts. Is ClickHouse Asynchronous Inserts also an option to consider?

[yurishkuro]

Possibly, this would be one of the things to investigate. I don't know the full details of these async inserts, but I always thought that CH being a database is in a better position to guarantee data resiliency by accepting inserts into some form of WAL and then applying them in batch internally. If that's what this feature does then great.

[haanhvu]

@yurishkuro Another question, for deployments with Kafka, if we use ClickHouse Kafka Connect Sink then we don't need jaeger-ingester here?

[yurishkuro]

Possibly.

[haanhvu]

@yurishkuro I submitted my proposal on the GSoC website.

The window closes tomorrow so it may be late to ask for review... But if you have time for review, here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ks44CveC4SAGtzm8CFQzNUWYLZs4bGACPgJTnNcU0Ts/edit?usp=sharing

I shared it with your github email. Please let me know if you need it to be shared with other emails (you can find Ha Anh Vu on CNCF Slack), or you can find the submitted proposal under the name Ha Anh Vu on the GSoC website.

If you don't have time for review, it's ok. I stated in the proposal that it's not a final solution proposal and can change with our learning.

Thanks for your help during the GSoC application! Whether selected or not, I already learned a lot working on PRs with you. I'm going to continue #4342 in the upcoming days.

[yurishkuro]

@haanhvu 's proposal has been selected, closing this.