Introducing Distributed Tracing in a Large Software System

Talk presentation

Software systems are growing in size and complexity when the business is growing, and sometimes it is hard to figure out what is going on. Various teams make different changes for different business capabilities. Distributed Tracing is a useful way to look under the hood and see for yourself what operations are being performed, what services are used in a certain use case, and how performant are they. In this talk, I will present what Distributed Tracing is and how we introduced it into our software system with some tips and tricks on what you should focus on if you want to do the same.