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DWARF-based Stack Walking Using eBPF

Deep dive into the new DWARF-based stack unwinder using eBPF.

ProfilingBPF+7
Author:Javier Honduvilla Coto
Javier Honduvilla Coto

Announcing Profiling Support Without Frame Pointers

Open-Source Parca Agent is adding support for native applications compiled without frame pointers.

ProfilingeBPF+6
Author:Javier Honduvilla Coto
Javier Honduvilla Coto

Parca now also in Grafana Core

Parca in Grafana without having to install a plugin!

GrafanaParca+2
Authors:
Matthias LoiblFrederic Branczyk
Matthias L, Frederic B.

Polar Signals at KubeCon NA 2022

Attending KubeCon NA 2022 in Detroit, USA.

KubeConCommunity
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

Parca Plugin for Grafana!

You asked for it, we delivered.

PprofParca+1
Authors:
Manoj VivekMatthias Loibl
Manoj V, Matthias L.

Improved pprof.me! 🎉

Good news! pprof.me, our free profile sharing service, has got a shiny new look and feel. It's now easier than ever to share and visualize your profiles with the world.

PprofPprof.Me+1
Author:Manoj Vivek
Manoj Vivek

Exploring Go's Profile-Guided Optimizations

Making code faster without modifying it using Profile-Guided Optimizations.

GoContinuous-Profiling+3
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Optimizing Your Programs with Continuous Profiling

An example of using continuous profiling to inform code improvements.

FrostDBContinuous-Profiling+1
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

System-wide profiling in Parca Agent

How we re-architected Parca Agent to profile every process on the host and made it more scalable in the process.

ProfilingBPF+2
Author:Javier Honduvilla Coto
Javier Honduvilla Coto

Sponsoring the Open-Source Community

Polar Signals is sponsoring open-source developers.

CultureCompany Culture+1
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

For a change, let's talk web performance: HTTP 103 (Early Hints)

We'll talk about what is HTTP 103 (Early Hints), how it can help speed up the web.

webperfweb-performance+1
Author:Manoj Vivek
Manoj Vivek

Winter is coming - FrostDB in Prometheus

FrostDB is an embedded columnar database built for observability data. This article will explore FrostDB's potential by using it in Prometheus.

FrostDBPrometheus+1
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

Introduction to Parca - Part 1

Parca is our open source, always-on eBPF-based continuous profiler. In this article, we'll learn some of the concepts behind Parca and use it to profile our system.

ParcaeBPF+3
Author:Sumera Priyadarsini
Sumera Priyadarsini

How we use gRPC to build our frontend at Polar Signals

gRPC is a new protocol for building a backend for our frontend. In this article, we'll learn how we use gRPC and gRPC-web to build our frontend at Polar Signals.

gRPCgRPC-Web+3
Author:Yomi Eluwande
Yomi Eluwande

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
Frederic Branczyk

What BJJ taught me about Software Development

How training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has helped me become a better programmer

Software DevelopmentCompany Culture+1
Author:Monica Wojciechowski
Monica Wojciechowski

Polar Signals at KubeCon EU 2022

Attending KubeCon EU 2022 in Valencia, Spain.

KubeConCommunity
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

Introducing arcticDB: A database for Observability

Continuous profiling needed a columnar database, so we built it.

golangapache arrow+3
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Profiling Next.js apps with Parca

We will learn how to profile your Next.js/Node.js apps with Parca and how it helps you to go back in time and identify the root cause for the irregular bottlenecks in your application's performance.

JavascriptNextjs+2
Author:Manoj Vivek
Manoj Vivek

How we build our APIs: From Scratch

In a previous post we detailed how we build our APIs here at Polar Signals. But we're going back to basics, in this tutorial we'll teach you how to build a small App from API to implementation.

GoFrontend+6
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

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