docs(guides): add distributed tracing deep dive guide (#461)#471
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Comprehensive guide covering the tracing and export subsystem: - Tracing architecture with span lifecycle and hierarchy - W3C Trace Context propagation (inject/extract) - 7 export formats across 3 backends (Jaeger, Zipkin, OTLP) - OpenTelemetry compatibility layer and adapter - HTTP and gRPC transport layers with pluggable implementations - 4 production examples: microservice tracing, DB ops, multi-backend, async messaging
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Comprehensive guide covering the tracing and export subsystem: - Tracing architecture with span lifecycle and hierarchy - W3C Trace Context propagation (inject/extract) - 7 export formats across 3 backends (Jaeger, Zipkin, OTLP) - OpenTelemetry compatibility layer and adapter - HTTP and gRPC transport layers with pluggable implementations - 4 production examples: microservice tracing, DB ops, multi-backend, async messaging
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include/kcenon/monitoring/tracing/distributed_tracer.h— Public forwarding headersrc/impl/tracing/distributed_tracer.h— Tracer implementation, span types, contextinclude/kcenon/monitoring/tracing/trace_context.h— Lightweight contextinclude/kcenon/monitoring/context/thread_context.h— Thread-local contextinclude/kcenon/monitoring/exporters/trace_exporters.h— Jaeger, Zipkin, OTLP exportersinclude/kcenon/monitoring/exporters/opentelemetry_adapter.h— OTel compatibilityinclude/kcenon/monitoring/exporters/http_transport.h— HTTP transport layerinclude/kcenon/monitoring/exporters/grpc_transport.h— gRPC transport layerAcceptance Criteria
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Closes #461