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 # brave #
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/kristofa/brave.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/kristofa/brave)
 
 Java distributed tracing implementation compatible with [Zipkin](https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/).