Original Title: Follow the (full)stack trace: understand your app with distributed tracing

What if we could follow a user request, from a page load in the browser, to our backend, through our services, to the database, and back? What does it look like to see how our UI receives data and renders its views across a timeline? What happens when we put these traces together?!

Distributed tracing is a collection of timings across the entire stack, for any given interaction. Whether it’s a page load or …