Uber Automates Dependency Analysis across its Service Mesh

Leela Kumili — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:39:00 GMT

Uber has developed an automated dependency analysis system that uses RPC middleware and production metrics to correlate caller and downstream failures. The approach classifies dependencies as fail-close, fail-open, or unknown and addresses limitations of sampled distributed tracing for rare failures across Uber’s large service mesh.

By Leela Kumili

Cloudflare Traces Turns the Proxy Layer into OpenTelemetry Spans, with New Volume-Based Pricing

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:12:00 GMT

Cloudflare has put Traces into open beta, extending automatic tracing from Workers to security rules, transformations, cache, routing and origin handling as OpenTelemetry spans. Traces accept and forward W3C traceparent headers, and Trace Rules allow targeted sampling. Pricing moves to ingestion and retention volume from December 1.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Uber Automates Dependency Analysis across its Service Mesh

Cloudflare Traces Turns the Proxy Layer into OpenTelemetry Spans, with New Volume-Based Pricing