Distributed Tracing in Large Software Systems

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Introduces Distributed Tracing as a tool to observe operations, service calls, and performance in large, multi-team software systems. Describes what Distributed Tracing is, how it was implemented in the presenters’ systems, and gives practical recommendations and pitfalls to watch for when adopting it.

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1. 0:00Distributed tracing intro
2. 3:17Debugging distributed systems
3. 5:50Payroll page timeout
4. 6:11Search ranking optimization
5. 7:39OpenTelemetry spans & attributes
6. 10:51Tracing HTTP requests
7. 13:04Tracing messaging systems
8. 15:14Simplifying tracing for teams
9. 17:00Storing traces sampling
10. 19:08Sampling strategies
11. 21:16Choosing tracing backend
12. 23:02Visualizing traces in Tempo
13. 25:51Tempo search issues
14. 27:32Conclusion & advice
15. 28:58Q&A

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