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Product designers play a pivotal role in crafting user-centric interfaces for complex systems, leveraging principles like simplification, data sensemaking, and tailored experiences. Effective collaboration with developers, early integration in projects, and the use of tools like Tableau, D3.js, and AI are key in creating seamless solutions. Case studies exemplify the impact of design integration, while traits like user-centricity and tech savviness define effective designers...

Distributed tracing is being promoted as one of the pillars of observability offering enhanced visibility into cross-service interactions. Despite its advertised and widely promoted potential, there are more chances to fail adopting distributed tracing than get any value out of it. Successful tracing requires instrumenting the entire request flow passing through dozens of services, making tens or even hundreds of persistence layer calls.