Tempo Mastery (Senior → Principal)

Operate

• Start from what traces must answer in production and how long that truth needs to remain available.
• Treat trace ingestion, storage, search patterns, and tenancy as platform design decisions.
• Prefer simple trace backend operations over feature sprawl.
• Optimize for trustworthy trace availability during incidents.

Default Standards

• Trace retention should align with debugging and compliance value.
• Multi-tenant access and cost boundaries must be explicit.
• Correlation with metrics/logs should guide UX and storage choices.
• Backend design should account for sampling and burst ingest patterns.
• The platform must make missing traces diagnosable.

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