Welcome to the Polar Signals blog where we write about profiling, performance, and company culture.
Polar Signals at KubeCon EU 2023
Attending KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
April 16, 2023 | Kemal Akkoyun
KubeCon
Community
Embeddable Profiles in pprof.me
Say goodbye to taking screenshots of flame graphs/profile data. Now you can embed the interactive profiles directly in any website.
April 05, 2023 | Manoj Vivek
Profile-Sharing
pprof.me
Ice and Fire: How to read icicle and flame graphs
Flame graphs and icicle graphs are a great way to visualize performance profiles. In this post, we will learn how to read and interpret them.
March 28, 2023 | Kemal Akkoyun
Continuous profiling
Profiling
Icicle graphs
Flame graphs
Performance
Performance monitoring
Performance profiling
Performance Analysis
Data Visualization
Designing Your Indexes for Better Database Performance
How we improved our database query performance by 80% and the intuition behind the changes that led to this improvement
March 20, 2023 | Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Parca
Databases
Performance
Indexes
Schema
What’s new in Parca 0.16 and Parca Agent 0.13?
We have exciting updates in this release, including improved JIT symbolization, reliability and quality improvements, step querying, and more!
February 28, 2023 | Javier Honduvilla Coto, Yomi Eluwande
Continuous-Profiling
Profiling
Parca
Parca Agent
DWARF
DWARF-Based Unwinding
JIT
Symbolization
Step Querying
Icicle Graphs
Symbolizing Postgres Profiling Data
A journey through undocumented behavior.
February 8, 2023 | Frederic Branczyk
Postgres
Sql
Profiling
Continuous-Profiling
Debuginfo
Debuginfod
DWARF
Polar Signals at FOSDEM 2023
Attending FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels.
February 3, 2023 | Frederic Branczyk
FOSDEM
Community
Introduction to Parca - Part 2
Parca Agent is our open source, always-on eBPF-based continuous profiler. In this article, we will learn some of the concepts behind Parca Agent and use it to profile our system.