One trace threading through five lanes, from browser to Angular, Java, .NET, Go and Node, over HTTP, gRPC and Kafka

Observability in Practice: Distributed Systems, Cost and Production

Part 2 of 2. One browser click crossing five systems and four languages in a single trace, and what changes when that goes to production: tail sampling, cardinality, exemplars and SLOs.

August 9, 2026 · 34 min · Matheus Oliveira