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Observability

Distributed Tracing: Following a Request Across Services

Jun 3, 2026

What distributed tracing is, how trace context propagation works, and how to use traces to find the actual source of latency in a multi-service system.

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Metrics: What to Measure and What to Ignore

May 2, 2026

How to pick the right metrics for your service, understand the different metric types, and avoid the trap of measuring everything.

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Logging That's Actually Useful: Structured Logs and Log Levels

Apr 20, 2026

A log that's hard to search is just noise. Structured logging and proper log levels are what separate observability from disk pollution.

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