Modern applications often become complex black boxes when issues arise. This isn't limited to companies with thousands of microservices or complicated distributed systems, even a typical Next.js application with its interplay of frontend and backend components can feel challenging to debug. Pinpointing the root cause of an error or performance bottleneck across this network can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack, involving a painstaking trawl through isolated logs and metrics.

This talk reveals how distributed tracing cuts through that chaos, transforming fragmented data into actionable insights. We'll explore how tracing helps connect disparate telemetry like errors, logs, and metrics into a unified story. You'll see how implementing tracing context empowers developers to diagnose problems with greater speed and precision, ultimately leading to faster fixes and more resilient systems.

Takeaways:
- You'll gain a clear understanding of what distributed tracing and how it can be used to connect disparate events (like errors and logs) across your frontend, backend, and infrastructure to create a single, coherent view of your software systems.
- You'll see how tracing connected data meaningfully speeds up debugging workflows so you can identify and fix problems faster

Why should someone attend
This talk tackles a core developer challenge: debugging issues in today's complex software. It will clearly explain "distributed tracing," a method that helps developers see exactly what's happening across all parts of their application. Implementing tracing in your applications will supercharge the debuggability of your sofware, making it much easier to identify and fix errors and performance problems.