Posts tagged Distributed Tracing — AI × software engineering, made practical.
Six agents ran clean, every span passed, and the pipeline still quietly wrecked its own output — the postmortem question that exposed it is one logs, metrics, and traces were never built to answer.
A billing anomaly forced us to trace one request through a reasoning loop with twelve hidden calls inside it — and exposed the blind spot every API gateway has the moment your agents start calling each other behind its back.
A queue promises your message will arrive eventually — it never promised you could prove what happened to it, and that gap is what pages you when a delivery goes quietly, successfully wrong.