Benjamen Pyle: Observing Lambda with Datadog and Golang

Observing Lambda with Datadog and Golang

https://binaryheap.com/observing-with-aws-lambda-datadog-and-go/

Loved this write-up on building an observability stack with AWS Lambda, Datadog and Go.

This part:

Tracing in applications is just a way for you to instrument your code so that the request or event or whatever triggered your request is collected in a “context”. The trace is the parent context where all of the sub items are related. If you get 1,000 requests in a minute, you’ll have 1,000 traces.

I'm very curious about how this all fits together and if Datadog really adds value. Will be fun to try this out myself sometime soon!