Continuous profiling is collecting profiling data (think things like memory and CPU) all the time/throughout time in your production environment. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Frederic Branczyk, CEO of PolarSignals, a startup formed to enable continuous profiling leveraging eBPF. Wes and Frederic discuss the origin story of Polar Signals, eBPF (the enabling technology used by Polar Signals), Parca (the open-source system they built to collect continuous profiling data), and more, including things like FrostDB and why profiling data complements what we already have with our currenct observability stacks.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3SpIcxj

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Transcript

Frederic Branczyk on Continuous Profiling Leveraging eBPF

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