Read a distributed trace to find the critical-path span, hidden serialization, and the service responsible for slow or failed requests.
## CONTEXT A distributed trace shows a request as a tree of spans across services, each with timing and metadata, and it is the single most powerful tool for understanding behavior in a microservices system. But a trace is only useful if read correctly. The critical path, the chain of spans that actually determines…
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