Waqas Ahmad — Software Architect & Technical Consultant - Available USA, Europe, Global

Waqas Ahmad — Software Architect & Technical Consultant

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Distributed Systems

.NET ArchitectureCloud-Native ArchitectureAzure Cloud EngineeringAPI ArchitectureMicroservices ArchitectureEvent-Driven ArchitectureDatabase Design & Optimization

👋 Hi, I'm Waqas — a Software Architect and Technical Consultant specializing in .NET, Azure, microservices, and API-first system design..
I help companies build reliable, maintainable, and high-performance backend platforms that scale.

Experienced across engineering ecosystems shaped by Microsoft, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the Apache Software Foundation.

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Distributed Tracing

Definition

Following a request across many services; trace ID in headers; spans form a tree.

As defined in the knowledge graph

  • Tracking requests across services. — From: API Gateway vs BFF: When to Use Which
  • Trace requests across services; Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry. — From: Azure Microservices Architecture Best Practices
  • Following a single request across services; trace ID and span ID in headers; one timeline. — From: OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing in .NET
  • Follow saga flow across services; correlation ID and tracing. — From: Saga Pattern: Orchestrator vs Choreography in Microservices

Related concepts

Concepts linked in the knowledge graph:

Correlation IDIncrementalMicroservicesMonitoringObservabilityOpenTelemetryPropagationSpanTrace ID

Articles mentioning this concept

Deep dives and guides that cover this topic:

API Gateway vs BFF: When to Use WhichAzure Microservices Architecture Best PracticesObservability for .NET on AzureOpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing in .NETSaga Pattern: Orchestrator vs Choreography in Microservices