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by Xorlev 2783 days ago
We also use census for a variety of tasks, mainly for metrics but also for propagating small tags from task to task. The tags [1] can be essentially thought of as request-local scoped state for the entire tree of requests.

The presence of these tags can be used to control behavior if you're clever about it.

[1] https://opencensus.io/tag/