Correctly Profiling Node.js with Zero-Instrumentation
Or: A tale of handling unexpected behaviour by the v8 runtime.
Parca AgentInterpreter+8
Authors:
Frederic B, Javier H. Coto
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Symbolizing Postgres Profiling Data
A journey through undocumented behavior.
PostgresSql+5
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
Polar Signals at FOSDEM 2023
Attending FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels.
FOSDEMCommunity
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
What's new in Parca?
Looking at some exciting features that recently landed in Parca.
Continuous-ProfilingBPF+8
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
Design Decisions of a Continuous Profiler
The tradeoffs and considerations building continuous, fleet-wide profilers.
Continuous-ProfilingBPF+7
Authors:
Frederic B, Javier H Coto, Kemal A, Monica W, Thor H.
Parca now also in Grafana Core
Parca in Grafana without having to install a plugin!
GrafanaParca+2
Authors:
Matthias L, Frederic B.
Exploring Go's Profile-Guided Optimizations
Making code faster without modifying it using Profile-Guided Optimizations.
GoContinuous-Profiling+3
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
Naming is hard: ArcticDB is now FrostDB (+updates!)
We made a mistake in naming our open-source in-memory columnar database.
GolangApache Arrow+3
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
Introducing arcticDB: A database for Observability
Continuous profiling needed a columnar database, so we built it.
golangapache arrow+3
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
On Building Company Culture
Thoughts on how early company culture shapes the future of it.
CompanyCulture+2
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
Introducing Parca - Prometheus but for profiles
P.S. We got funded!
PprofGo+5
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
Demystifying Pprof Labels with Go
Learn how to demystify Pprof Labels using Go
PprofGo+1
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
Continuous Profiler Cumulative Metrics
Our first major feature since our product launch: cumulative profiling metrics!
PprofPrivate beta+2
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
Announcing Polar Signals Continuous Profiler
Since founding Polar Signals, we have been heads down working on our first product, and today we are beyond excited to share it with you!
PprofPrivate beta+1
Author:
Frederic Branczyk
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Autonomous Optimization with Claude Code
Optimize your infrastructure autonomously every day with Claude Code and Polar Signals
AIClaude Code+1
OpenTelemetry Profiling goes Alpha
How to use it with Polar Signals & Parca
OpenTelemetryProfiling+2
Continuous NVIDIA CUDA Profiling In Production
Low-Overhead Profiling of GPUs with USDT Probes and eBPF
GPUProfiling
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