In this chapter, we learned all about traces. We learned how to implement individual traces on particular pieces of code and analyze them to understand their behavior. We also learned how to implement and analyze distributed traces to understand problems in our distributed system. Being able to use these skills will help you to debug distributed systems, and in turn, help to lower the mean time-to-resolution (MTTR) while troubleshooting distributed systems.
In Chapter 14, Clusters and Job Queues, we'll learn how to evaluate clusters and job queues for performance optimizations.