How OpenTelemetry tracing really works

A technical deep dive explanation of how OpenTelemetry distributed tracing really works under the hood with examples using Python, FastAPI and the requests module and Jaeger. I discuss the traceparent header and its importance in correctly stitching a trace together end-to-end.

GitHub Repo for code: https://github.com/agardnerIT/python-fastapi-requests-traceparent