Technical requirements

In this chapter, we’re going to evolve our meme application and use a cloud object store, Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage, along with a local Redis cache. The code for this chapter is available in the book’s GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-Distributed-Tracing-in-.NET/tree/main/chapter3, which has the following folder structure:

• libraries: Contains library instrumentation sample app for the first section of this chapter
• dapr: Contains Dapr instrumentation sample for the second section
• serverless: Contains aws and azure folders with examples of AWS Lambda and Azure Functions instrumentations

To run these applications, you would need the following tools:

• .NET SDK 7.0 or later
• Visual Studio or VS Code, but any text editor would work
• Docker and docker-compose
• Dapr CLI
• An Azure subscription (optional):
  • We’re going to use Blob Storage and Application Insights.
  • With Blob...