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JavaScript Source Maps Support in Polar Signals Cloud

Polar Signals Cloud now resolves minified JavaScript and TypeScript profiles back to original source code using source maps.

JavaScriptSource Maps+3
Author:Manoj Vivek
Manoj Vivek

Profiling Internals: Hardware Timers and eBPF

How Profilers Work: Part 2

eBPFParca Agent
Author:Brennan Vincent
Brennan Vincent

Introducing the Polar Signals VS Code Extension

See CPU time, memory allocations, and other profiling metrics as inline annotations directly in your source code.

ProfilingVS Code+2
Author:Yomi Eluwande
Yomi Eluwande

Introducing IAM

Represent your organization in Polar Signals

SecurityProfiling+2
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Call Stacks and Unwinding 101

How Profilers Work: Part 1

Profiling.eh_frame+2
Author:Brennan Vincent
Brennan Vincent

Introducing Oauth for AI Agents

Use your favorite AI agent securely with Polar Signals Profiling

AIClaude Code+5
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

ICYMI: Polar Signals at FOSDEM

Recap of the talks we gave at FOSDEM developer conference

FOSDEM
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

How to check your debuginfo status in Polar Signals Cloud

A faster and easier way to troubleshoot debuginfo processing in Polar Signals Cloud.

DebuginfoSymbolization+1
Author:Manoj Vivek
Manoj Vivek

Introducing the Sandwich View

A new way to visualize a function’s callers and callees side by side.

Data VisualizationFrontend+3
Author:Yomi Eluwande
Yomi Eluwande

Optimizing SLO Performance at Scale: How We Solved Pyrra’s Query Performance on Thanos

Learn how we optimized Pyrra’s SLO monitoring to handle high-cardinality metrics at scale, reducing cross-zone traffic and query times while maintaining 99% accuracy.

PerformanceObservability+3
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

Profiling NVIDIA CUDA in Kubernetes

The easiest way to get started Profiling CUDA in Kubernetes

CUDANVIDIA+3
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

USDT Probes: A Deep Dive

How we added USDT Probe support to Parca Agent

eBPFTracing+1
Author:Tommy Reilly
Tommy Reilly

Great Lakes: A Delta Lake Fork

Our updates to Delta Lake Table Format

Column DatabaseDelta Lake+1
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

Questioning an Interface: From Parquet to Vortex

Breaking free from the shackles of interface-imposed performance limitations

DatabasesDatafusion+2
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

Custom Labels for Node.js

Correlate Application-Specific Data With Profiles

CorrelationJavascript+1
Author:Brennan Vincent
Brennan Vincent

The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps

A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.

JavaScriptSource Maps+3
Author:Manoj Vivek
Manoj Vivek

Parallel Flame Graph Rendering

How we improved our Flame Graph rendering by moving computation to the backend.

Flame GraphsProfiling+1
Author:Yomi Eluwande
Yomi Eluwande

Das Problem mit German Strings

And why I don't want my database to choose the best encoding for me (yet)

DatabasesColumn Database+3
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

OOMProf - Profiling on the Brink

Using eBPF to record your programs dying breaths

BPFMemory Profiling+1
Author:Tommy Reilly
Tommy Reilly

Offline Mode for the Parca Agent

Collect and upload profiles -- even without a network connection

ProfilingParca Agent
Author:Brennan Vincent
Brennan Vincent

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