Distributed Tracing Explained: Use cases, the best tools, and getting it to work locally

Simon explains what Distributed Tracing is, how you use it for development and debugging, which tools are best, and how you can automatically instrument your microservices application for local tracing.

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00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Instrumenting tracing
01:55 - The cost of implementing tracing
03:17 - A look at Lightstep
04:01 - A trace in Lightstep
05:43 - Debugging with tracing
06:32 - A look at Encore
06:53 - Example app
07:47 - Tracing in Encore
08:22 - Filtering on User ID
08:33 - Encore automatically instruments your application
09:05 - A trace in Encore
09:26 - Pub/Sub tracing
10:13 - Flow architecture diagram
10:33 - Debugging locally with local tracing
11:03 - Local dev dash
11:41 - Finding a bug in our Uptime Monitor example
12:25 - The root cause
12:42 - Doing it without tracing
13:02 - Wrapping up

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