Distributed Tracing for Ruby on Rails Microservices with OpenCensus/OpenTelemetry (part 1)

Photo by Paul Skorupskas on UnsplashThis series of articles is based on a talk I gave at RailsConf 2019, titled “Troubleshoot Your RoR Microservices with Distributed Tracing.” In part 1 of the series, I will introduce distributed tracing; why you need it, what it is, and how it helps in microservices architecture. In part 2, I will introduce OpenCensus and how you use it in Rails. Microservices ar