Welcome to the Polar Signals blog where we write about profiling, performance, and company culture.
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.
July 26, 2022 | Manoj Vivek
webperf
web-performance
http
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.
July 22, 2022 | Thor Hansen
FrostDB
Prometheus
Observability
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.
July 12, 2022 | Sumera Priyadarsini
Parca
eBPF
Continuous-Profiling
Observability
Parca Agent
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.
June 23, 2022 | Yomi Eluwande
gRPC
gRPC-Web
React Query
protobuf-ts
React
Naming is hard: ArcticDB is now FrostDB (+updates!)
We made a mistake in naming our open-source in-memory columnar database.
June 16, 2022 | Frederic Branczyk
Golang
Apache Arrow
Apache Parquet
Parca
Column Database
What BJJ taught me about Software Development
How training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has helped me become a better programmer
June 9, 2022 | Monica Wojciechowski
Software Development
Company Culture
Work-Life Balance
Polar Signals at KubeCon EU 2022
Attending KubeCon EU 2022 in Valencia, Spain.
May 13, 2022 | Matthias Loibl
KubeCon
Community
Introducing arcticDB: A database for Observability
Continuous profiling needed a columnar database, so we built it.