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

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.

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