A single checkout button click can fan out across an API gateway, an auth check, an inventory lookup, a database query, and a payment call — five services, one user-perceived action. Logs from each service tell you what happened inside…
OpenTelemetry Collector vs. Splunk vs. Datadog: What ‘Vendor Lock-In’ Actually Means
“Vendor lock-in” gets thrown around in observability conversations as if it’s one single problem. It isn’t. There’s instrumentation lock-in — your code is wired directly to a proprietary SDK or agent, and migrating means touching every service that emits telemetry…