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Distributed Tracing, W3C TraceContext & Causal Graph Propagation

Achieving complete observability across asynchronous event-driven pipelines: W3C TraceContext header propagation across Kafka record headers, parent-child span lineage, and tail-based sampling.

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Distributed Tracing, W3C TraceContext & Causal Graph Propagation

Achieving complete observability across asynchronous event-driven pipelines: W3C TraceContext header propagation across Kafka record headers, parent-child span lineage, and tail-based sampling.

Core Concepts:W3C TraceContextOpenTelemetry SpansKafka Record HeadersCausal Lineage GraphsTail-Based Sampling

Distributed Tracing, W3C TraceContext & Causal Graph Propagation

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