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How do you implement distributed tracing across a microservices architecture using OpenTelemetry? Walk through the key decisions and trade-offs.

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Implementing distributed tracing across microservices involves several layers of decisions, from instrumentation strategy to collection infrastructure to sampling policies.

auto-instrumentationcontext propagationW3C Trace Contexthead-based samplingtail-based samplingOTel Collector

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