Our Blog

Welcome to the Polar Signals blog where we write about profiling, performance, and company culture.

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.

May 04, 2022 | Frederic Branczyk

golang

apache arrow

apache parquet

parca

column database

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.

March 2, 2022 | Manoj Vivek

Javascript

Nextjs

Profiling

Parca

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.

February 22, 2022 | Thor Hansen

Frontend

API

Tutorial

Buf

Proto

Protobuf

Golang

Managing monorepos with Lerna and Yarn workspaces

Lerna and Yarn Workspaces gives us the ability to build and publish libraries and apps in a single repository (a.k.a. Monorepo). In this article we'll see how to publish UI components from a monorepo.

February 1, 2022 | Yomi Eluwande

Monorepo

Lerna

Yarn

Npm

React

Fantastic Symbols and Where to Find Them - Part 2

How profilers and debuggers translate machine addresses to human-readable symbolic names

January 27, 2022 | Kemal Akkoyun

Symbolization

Debugging

Profiling

Perf

Symbols

Interpreter

JIT

Python

Ruby

Node.Js

Javascript

Java

Fantastic Symbols and Where to Find Them - Part 1

How profilers and debuggers translate machine addresses to human-readable symbolic names

January 13, 2022 | Kemal Akkoyun

Symbolization

Binary

Debugging

Profiling

Analysis

Perf

Binutils

Symbols