Mastering Distributed Tracing with Go
summary
Hands-on outline of instrumenting Go microservices with OpenTelemetry showing actual code patterns: gRPC OTLP exporter (insecure for dev), tracer_init + defer shutdown, starting spans for HTTP handlers, DB queries with span attributes for SQL statements, and propagating context via TextMap. Case study on a high‑traffic analytics system records a 30% API speedup after fixing slow queries. Also demonstrates using OpenTelemetry + Go alongside adaptive sampling and GenAI (GPT‑4o / Claude 3.5) to auto‑generate instrumentation and analyze traces.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction to distributed tracing
- 1:04Why distributed tracing in Go
- 3:10Core concepts of tracing
- 7:05Setting up OpenTelemetry in Go
- 10:15Integrating tracing in microservices
- 13:44Managing trace data effectively
- 16:14Case study high-traffic platform
- 19:43Architecture with OpenTelemetry
- 21:50Tracing external API calls
- 23:14Database query tracing
- 24:18Generative AI and tracing
- 27:50Future trends in tracing
- 28:53Practical tips and resources
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