DOP 199: Test Your Distributed Applications Using Helios
DevOps Paradox
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Is Distributed Tracing Enough?
Microservices are distributed systems and monoliths are actually essentially the same, right? Because if you have seven microservices, your request goes to one, and then it is forwarded to another. If you have a huge monolith, same thing is happening just on a different level,. And you probably want to put spins in those. So, automatic tracing or automatic instrumentation, as it's called, will never cover all the cases; this is why it's crucial for tracing solutions to always support both automatic instrumentation and manual spans.
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