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Distributed tracing/Tutorial/Reading complex traces

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Traces as documentation

Reading system architecture from a traceJaeger link: https://trace.wikimedia.org/trace/1daf07d42b5b191de4c365f97c003cde

It's sometimes the case that the architecture of a system — or the design of interactions between systems — can be read from a single trace.

In this example trace, we see a user querying

Serial vs parallel

Multiple hops in the service mesh

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