Follow the Full Stack Trace - Understand Your App with Distributed Tracing

Explore the power of distributed tracing in this JSConf US 2019 talk by Will Klein. Discover how to follow user requests from browser to backend, through services, to the database and back. Learn to visualize UI data reception and view rendering across timelines. Gain insights into the basics of distributed tracing and how to instrument both frontend and backend in real-world applications. Walk away with practical tools to set up distributed tracing from scratch, enabling a comprehensive understanding of every process that occurs when users interact with your app. Delve into topics such as user risk assessment, performance optimization, trace composition, code instrumentation, API intricacies, and full-stack application tracing.

Intro
Your users are at risk
Its too slow
What is a trace
What makes up a trace
How do we instrument our code
Whats behind the API
Whats in a real application
Making the full stack
In a full stack application
Conclusion