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OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code
Distributed Tracing is scary and complicated... right?
Once you peel back the layers, I find a useful mental model of tracing looks like “fancy logging” combined with “context propagation” a.k.a “passing some IDs around”. If OpenTelemetry continues to be successful I expect OTLP, the ability to emit and receive it, will get built into everything: your IDE tooling, the platform you deploy on, the framework on which you are building, even hardware. You can probably make it happen Automagically wrap common libraries in robust, battle-tested instrumentation Optimized for performance when used in your code’s tight loops Conform to semantic conventions Support two whole other types of telemetry: metrics and logging
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