diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fa43e00..2a2a963 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,12 +32,11 @@ rsb_derive = "0.5"
 tokio = { version = "1" }
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
 futures = "0.3"
-futures-util = "0.3"
 async-trait = "0.1"
 
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.29", features = ["full"] }
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.20", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter","registry"] }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index d1841f5..e61c768 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -69,12 +69,15 @@ impl GcpCloudTraceExporterBuilder {
     ) -> Result<opentelemetry::sdk::trace::Tracer, opentelemetry::trace::TraceError> {
         let exporter = GcpCloudTraceExporter::new(&self.google_project_id).await?;
 
-        let mut provider_builder =
-            opentelemetry::sdk::trace::TracerProvider::builder().with_simple_exporter(exporter);
+        let mut provider_builder = opentelemetry::sdk::trace::TracerProvider::builder()
+            .with_batch_exporter(exporter, opentelemetry::runtime::Tokio);
         provider_builder = if let Some(config) = self.trace_config {
             provider_builder.with_config(config)
         } else {
-            provider_builder
+            provider_builder.with_config(
+                opentelemetry::sdk::trace::config()
+                    .with_sampler(opentelemetry::sdk::trace::Sampler::AlwaysOn),
+            )
         };
         let provider = provider_builder.build();
         let tracer = provider.versioned_tracer(
diff --git a/src/span_exporter.rs b/src/span_exporter.rs
index ee86b3d..09a8f2a 100644
--- a/src/span_exporter.rs
+++ b/src/span_exporter.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use crate::errors::*;
 use crate::google_trace_exporter_client::GcpCloudTraceExporterClient;
 use crate::TraceExportResult;
-use futures_util::future::{BoxFuture, TryFutureExt};
+use futures::future::{BoxFuture, TryFutureExt};
 use gcloud_sdk::GoogleEnvironment;
 use opentelemetry::sdk::export::trace::{ExportResult, SpanData, SpanExporter};
 use std::fmt::Formatter;