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What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

Traditional software monitoring platforms collect observability data in three main formats: Logs: Timestamped records of an event or events. Especially in dynamic microservices architectures, distributed tracing is essential to monitor, debug, and optimize distributed software architecture, such as microservices.

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What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

Traditional software monitoring platforms collect observability data in three main formats: Logs: Timestamped records of an event or events. Especially in dynamic microservices architectures, distributed tracing is essential to monitor, debug, and optimize distributed software architecture, such as microservices.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. Implementing a performance culture at Wix enabled us to apply performance enhancements to almost every part of our technological stack — from infrastructure to software architecture and media formats.

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