Distributed Systems
OpenTelemetry Sampling Strategies
Tracing everything is too expensive; tracing 1% randomly drops the traces you need. OpenTelemetry sampling strategies, head vs tail, and how to choose.
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Distributed Systems
Jaeger Tracing for Cross-Service Debugging
Jaeger turns a slow request across many services into one visual trace. How distributed tracing works, what to instrument, and the sampling tradeoff that bites.