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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

Why Compiler Function Inlining Matters

All about function inlining, how it helps us create performant software, how we can learn to work with it, and how it influences profiling.

December 15, 2021 | Matthias Loibl

Pprof

Perf

Inlining

How we build our gRPC APIs at Polar Signals using buf

Tools and strategies that we use to build APIs that we love at Polar Signals.

November 11, 2021 | Thor Hansen

API

gRPC

Design

Proto

Protobuf

Buf

On Building Company Culture

Thoughts on how early company culture shapes the future of it.

October 26, 2021 | Frederic Branczyk

Company

Culture

Entrepreneurship

Startup

Introducing Parca - Prometheus but for profiles

P.S. We got funded!

October 8, 2021 | Frederic Branczyk

Pprof

Performance

Kubernetes

eBPF

Funding

Prometheus

DIY pprof profiles using Go

August 3, 2021 | Matthias Loibl

Pprof

Performance

Demystifying Pprof Labels with Go

April 13, 2021 | Frederic Branczyk

Pprof

Performance