Use a threadsafe map to make getActiveSpans threadsafe #888
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Goal
The underlying snapshot taking operation isn't thread safe, so we have to use a thread safe data structure to ensure we can snapshot the current active spans while is being modified. This leaves room for some race conditions as to which session a span is started or stopped in, which is probably fine given the asynchronous nature of tracking spans anyway.
What I don't want is to lock everything every time a span is started or stopped, which could potentially result in some pretty bad performance. I can take a look to see if we can have some greater guarantees to reduce the aforementioned race condition, but this will work fine for now as long as we don't mind a bit of timestamp misalignment between span and session boundaries.