How X-Ray represents downstream calls
Your checkout service handles a request and, while doing so, calls DynamoDB to read a cart and then calls an external payment API. You open the trace in the X-Ray console to see how this single request was recorded.
How are the DynamoDB and payment-API calls represented relative to the checkout service's segment?
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