# Debugging Distributed Systems at 2 AM
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The difference between monitoring and observability, and why distributed tracing changes how you debug production issues.
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# Anatomy of a Trace: Spans, Context, and the Glue That Connects Services
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Deep dive into the core concepts of distributed tracing: Spans, Context Propagation, and Semantic Conventions.
# Instrumenting Go HTTP Services: A Hands-On Guide to OpenTelemetry
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Step-by-step guide to adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation to a Go microservices application using the official SDK and HTTP middleware.
# Tracing Database Queries with OpenTelemetry in Go
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Learn how to instrument your Go database calls with OpenTelemetry, visualize SQL queries in Jaeger, and spot performance bottlenecks like N+1 queries.
# Tracing Asynchronous Messaging with OpenTelemetry in Go
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Bridge the gap in your distributed traces by instrumenting Kafka producers and consumers with OpenTelemetry in Go.