Distributed Tracing
Master distributed tracing from the trace/span model and context propagation to sampling, Jaeger/Zipkin internals, OpenTelemetry, and correlation with logs and metrics.
What You Will Learn
Map the control plane and data plane boundaries behind Distributed Tracing.
Reason about latency, retries, health signals, and failure isolation at service edges.
Choose where policy lives: clients, sidecars, gateways, registries, or centralized controllers.
Balance operational simplicity against flexibility, security, and multi-region behavior.
Key Decisions
Where should Distributed Tracing sit in the request path or service control plane?
Which state must be strongly consistent, and which state can tolerate eventual propagation?
How do you observe health, policy drift, and partial failure without creating new bottlenecks?
What changes when the platform expands to multi-region or multi-tenant operation?
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