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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

ParcaDatabases+3
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

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!

Continuous-ProfilingProfiling+8
Authors:
Javier Honduvilla CotoYomi Eluwande
Javier H Coto, Yomi E.

Symbolizing Postgres Profiling Data

A journey through undocumented behavior.

PostgresSql+5
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Polar Signals at FOSDEM 2023

Attending FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels.

FOSDEMCommunity
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

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.

Continuous-ProfilingBPF+6
Author:Sumera Priyadarsini
Sumera Priyadarsini

What's new in Parca?

Looking at some exciting features that recently landed in Parca.

Continuous-ProfilingBPF+8
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Design Decisions of a Continuous Profiler

The tradeoffs and considerations building continuous, fleet-wide profilers.

Continuous-ProfilingBPF+7
Authors:
Frederic BranczykJavier Honduvilla CotoKemal AkkoyunMonica WojciechowskiThor Hansen
Frederic B, Javier H Coto, Kemal A, Monica W, Thor H.

DWARF-based Stack Walking Using eBPF

Deep dive into the new DWARF-based stack unwinder using eBPF.

ProfilingBPF+7
Author:Javier Honduvilla Coto
Javier Honduvilla Coto

Announcing Profiling Support Without Frame Pointers

Open-Source Parca Agent is adding support for native applications compiled without frame pointers.

ProfilingeBPF+6
Author:Javier Honduvilla Coto
Javier Honduvilla Coto

Parca now also in Grafana Core

Parca in Grafana without having to install a plugin!

GrafanaParca+2
Authors:
Matthias LoiblFrederic Branczyk
Matthias L, Frederic B.

Polar Signals at KubeCon NA 2022

Attending KubeCon NA 2022 in Detroit, USA.

KubeConCommunity
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

Parca Plugin for Grafana!

You asked for it, we delivered.

PprofParca+1
Authors:
Manoj VivekMatthias Loibl
Manoj V, Matthias L.

Improved pprof.me! 🎉

Good news! pprof.me, our free profile sharing service, has got a shiny new look and feel. It's now easier than ever to share and visualize your profiles with the world.

PprofPprof.Me+1
Author:Manoj Vivek
Manoj Vivek

Exploring Go's Profile-Guided Optimizations

Making code faster without modifying it using Profile-Guided Optimizations.

GoContinuous-Profiling+3
Author:Frederic Branczyk
Frederic Branczyk

Optimizing Your Programs with Continuous Profiling

An example of using continuous profiling to inform code improvements.

FrostDBContinuous-Profiling+1
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

System-wide profiling in Parca Agent

How we re-architected Parca Agent to profile every process on the host and made it more scalable in the process.

ProfilingBPF+2
Author:Javier Honduvilla Coto
Javier Honduvilla Coto

Sponsoring the Open-Source Community

Polar Signals is sponsoring open-source developers.

CultureCompany Culture+1
Author:Matthias Loibl
Matthias Loibl

For a change, let's talk web performance: HTTP 103 (Early Hints)

We'll talk about what is HTTP 103 (Early Hints), how it can help speed up the web.

webperfweb-performance+1
Author:Manoj Vivek
Manoj Vivek

Winter is coming - FrostDB in Prometheus

FrostDB is an embedded columnar database built for observability data. This article will explore FrostDB's potential by using it in Prometheus.

FrostDBPrometheus+1
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

Introduction to Parca - Part 1

Parca is our open source, always-on eBPF-based continuous profiler. In this article, we'll learn some of the concepts behind Parca and use it to profile our system.

ParcaeBPF+3
Author:Sumera Priyadarsini
Sumera Priyadarsini

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