The ability to attach auxiliary metadata to requests within a large microservice architecture enables powerful use cases, such as infrastructure-level sharding, language localization, and testing-in-production.
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Optimizing OpenTelemetry’s Span Processor for High Throughput and Low CPU Costs
When companies move to microservices, they need to address a new challenge of setting up distributed tracing to identify availability or performance issues throughout the platform.