Dapper Paper (2010)
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“Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure” (2010) — Sigelman et al.
Described Google’s approach to distributed tracing: propagating trace context (trace IDs and span IDs) through RPCs, sampling, and low-overhead instrumentation. Defined the concepts used by all modern tracing systems. Inspired Zipkin (Twitter), Jaeger (Uber), and eventually OpenTelemetry.
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