Distributed Tracing

  • 09 August 2026
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How Distributed Tracing Works: Scrub It, Poke It, Break It

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How does one request keep its identity across a dozen services? I animated the W3C Trace Context spec so you can scrub, poke and break each header yourself.

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  • 16 August 2026
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Week 33, 2026 - Traces as Documentation, the Observability Land Grab and Search I Host Myself

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Agents read traces where humans read dashboards. Dynatrace bought Arize for $915M, Nini says my posts are too generic and I moved to a self-hosted SearXNG.

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