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The GeekNarratoreBPF and continuous profiling with FredericThe GeekNarrator memberships can be joined here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mGuY4g0mggeUGM6V1osdA/joinMembership will get you access to member only videos, exclusive notes and monthly 1:1 with me. Here you can see all the member only videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMO_mGuY4g0mggeUGM6V1osdA------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------About this episode: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In this episode, Kaivalya Apte and Frederic Branczyk talk about observability, focusing on continuous profiling and the role of eBPF. They discuss the evolution of profiling techniques, the importance of systematic data collection, and the challenges faced in maintaining low overhead while gathering...
2025-03-141h 17
Default Global Podcast: Navigating Global Expansion, Remote Teams, and International TalentFrom Red Hat to $10.8M in FundingIn this episode of Default Global, I sit down with Frederic Branczyk, the founder and CEO of Polar Signals.Frederic has an incredible story, he went from leading cutting-edge observability projects at Red Hat to raising $10.8 million for a startup that’s redefining continuous profiling for cloud-native environments.Key Takeaway:The fundraising strategies that helped him close two successful rounds—and what’s changed in the investment landscape since 2021.How to find the right investors, build strong relationships, and leverage their networks.What it takes to grow a remote...
2024-12-1927 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleKubeCon NA 2024KubeCon North America 2024 took place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Nov 12-15. We interviewed people on the show floor to gather their impressions of the event, what they learned and what they want to see in the future. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Cert-manager is a CNCF graduate project Dapr is a CNCF Graduated project Dapr episode on...
2024-11-2631 min
Optimize All The ThingsProfiling, AI, and Creating a Startup Culture: Insights from PolarSignals' Founder Frederic BranczykIn this episode, we sit down with Frederic Branczyk, founder of PolarSignals, to explore the intersection of advanced profiling techniques, AI-driven optimizations, and the nuances of building a successful startup culture. Frederic shares his journey from a technical contributor to a startup leader, offering insights into both the technological and business aspects of running a tech company.Where to find more about Frederic and Polar Signals:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederic-branczyk/X - https://x.com/fredbranczMastodon - https://hachyderm.io/@branczPolar Signals - https://www.polarsignals.com/Parca - https...
2024-06-0356 min
Make it WorkKubeCon EU 2024For our 4th episode, we have four conversations from KubeCon EU 2024.We talk to Jesse Suen about Argo CD & Kargo, Solomon Hykes shares the next evolution of Dagger, and Justin Cormack dives into Docker & AI. We also catch up with Frederic Branczyk & Thor Hansen on the latest Parca & Polar Signals Cloud updates since our last conversation.Each conversation has a video version too:Jesse Suen: 🎬 GitOps & ClickOps beyond KubernetesSolomon Hykes: 🎬 Pipelines as FunctionsJustin Cormack: 🎬 Works on my ComputerFrederic Branczyk & Thor Hansen: 🎬 always BPFLINKS1. Jesse Suen- What's New in Kargo...
2024-05-0152 min
Giant ConversationsGC #04 - Back from KubeCon EUThis episode scours the halls of KubeCon Paris to get answers to what everyone is talking about.
Giant Conversations Episode #04
This episode scours the halls of KubeCon Paris to get answers to what everyone is talking about. From what best talks are, to which booth had the best SWAG and even opened up the Pandora's box of Should Open Source Projects be monetized.
Hosted by:
Oliver Thylmann
Tommy Hobin
Main topic
Cloud Native Ecosystem Q & A at KubeCon in Paris 2024
Selected Questions
Srsly?
In your opinion...
2024-03-2837 min
Make it WorkHow much CPU & Memory?This episode looks into the observability tool Parca & Polar Signals Cloud with Frederic Branczyk and Thor Hansen. We discuss experiences and discoveries using Parca for detailed system-wide performance analysis, which transcends programming languages.We highlight a significant discovery related to kube-prometheus and the unnecessary CPU usage caused by Prometheus exporter's attempts to access BTRFS stats, leading to a beneficial configuration change for Kubernetes users globally.We also explore Parca Agent's installation on Kubernetes 1.28 running on Talos 1.5, the process of capturing memory profiles with Parca, and the efficiency of the Parca Agent in terms of memory...
2024-02-2935 min
2023-09-0254 min
The InfoQ PodcastFrederic Branczyk on Continuous Profiling Leveraging eBPFContinuous 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...
2022-10-0330 min
Software Engineering DailyContinuous Profiling using eBPF with Frederic BranczykProfiling has been a part of the software engineering toolbox since the 1970s, but it was long regarded to be too high in overhead, so it was only done ad hoc. The problem with profiling that way is that you never catch the moment in time where for example an incident happened. Continuous profiling is the systematic capturing of profiling at all times, Google has been doing it for over a decade, but it comes both with challenges of how to capture the data at low overhead and also storing and querying the enormous amount of data that continuous...
2022-07-1651 min
Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform EngineeringWhat do oranges & flame graphs have in common?Today we are talking with Frederic Branczyk, founder of Polar Signals & Prometheus maintainer. You may remember Frederic from episode 33 when we introduced Parca.dev.
This time, we talk about a database built for observability: FrostDB, formerly known as ArcticDB. eBPF generates a lot of high cardinality data, which requires a new approach to writing, persisting & then reading back this state.
TL;DR FrostDB is sub zero cool & well worthy of its name.
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2022-06-171h 04Changelog Master FeedWhat do oranges & flame graphs have in common? (Ship It! #57)Today we are talking with Frederic Branczyk, founder of Polar Signals & Prometheus maintainer. You may remember Frederic from episode 33 when we introduced Parca.dev. This time, we talk about a database built for observability: FrostDB, formerly known as ArcticDB. eBPF generates a lot of high cardinality data, which requires a new approach to writing, persisting & then reading back this state. TL;DR FrostDB is sub zero cool & well worthy of its name.
2022-06-171h 04
Grafana's Big TentContinuous profiling with Frederic BranczykAt KubeCon Europe 2019, Polar Signals Founder and CEO Frederic Branczyk predicted that continuous profiling was the future of observability. Fast forward three years, and he's not wrong. In this episode, we'll discuss how Polar Signals' open source tool Parca is leading the conversation around continuous profiling, how it reduces overhead costs thanks to eBPF, how Parca has grown its passionate community, and perhaps most importantly, what cute animal will become the Parca mascot.
2022-03-2558 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleThreatMapper, with Sandeep Lahane and Owen GarrettThreatMapper is an open source tool that hunts for vulnerabilities in your production Kubernetes environment, and ranks them based on their risk of exploit. It is built by Deepfence, who also sell a commercial product based on it called ThreatStryker. Co-founder/CEO Sandeep Lahane and head of products/community Owen Garrett join Craig to discuss how to decide what to open and what to keep closed, and just how deep his fence needs to be. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod...
2022-03-2337 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleParca, with Frederic BranczykThe fourth horseman of the apocalypse observability, according to Frederic Branczyk, is continuous profiling. Frederic is founder and CEO of Polar Signals and creator of the Parca open source project. He and Craig talk all things Cloud Native observability. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Bad news from Australia: Shane Warne died National emergency called over flooding Strange news Photoshopped fridge magnets Cookery books News of the week Knative accepted as a CNCF incubating project Google Cloud...
2022-03-0942 minShip It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering🎄 Merry Shipmas 🎁Merry Shipmas! This is our special Christmas episode which sums up two months of very early mornings and a few late nights. After many twists and turns, stuff which didn’t work out, as well as pleasant surprises, this is what we ended up with:
🎁 PR #395 - CI/CD Lego set with Guillaume de Rouville & Joel Longtine
🎁 PR #396 - Continuous CPU profiling with Frederic Branczyk
🎁 PR #399 - Auto-restoring Kubernetes clusters with Dan Mangum & Muvaffak Onuş
While we initially intended to have five Christmas presents in total, only three got delivered in time. We planned, worked hard and eventually s...
2021-12-241h 29
OpenObservability TalksPrometheus Pitfalls and the Rise of Continuous Profiling - OpenObservability Talks S2E07We’ve grown to rely on “the three pillars” for observability - logs, metrics and traces. Popular frameworks such as Prometheus have helped popularize these practices. But now people are starting to realize that it’s not enough.
On this episode Dotan Horovits will host Frederic Branczyk for a discussion about the unspoken pitfalls of Prometheus and the challenges of current observability coverage. We will also discuss the rise of Continuous Profiling as a new observability signal, what it’s about and where it can help. We’ll also review the recent launch of Parca, an open source proje...
2021-12-211h 01Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform EngineeringGerhard at KubeCon NA 2021: Part 1This is Gerhard’s first set of interviews from KubeCon North America 2021.
William Morgan shares with us some of the finer Linkerd details, such as the underlying security theme, why native Kubernetes objects are preferable to more CRDs, and the joy of meeting team members in person.
Frederic Branczyk speaks about Parca, a new continuous system profiling tool that uses eBPF to help you understand what is happening on your hosts.
Andrew Rynhard gives us a great Talos OS and Kubespan perspective, and shares some really good follow-up videos on these topics.
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2021-10-271h 34
The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceGerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) (Interview)Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein, Ben Kochie, and Frederic Branczyk… Grafana with Tom Wilkie and Ed Welch… and Crossplane with Jared Watts, Marques Johansson, and Dan Mangum.
Don’t miss part one with Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma, Natasha Woods, & Alexis Richardson.
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2019-12-272h 19Changelog InterviewsGerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2)Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein, Ben Kochie, and Frederic Branczyk… Grafana with Tom Wilkie and Ed Welch… and Crossplane with Jared Watts, Marques Johansson, and Dan Mangum.
Don’t miss part one with Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma, Natasha Woods, & Alexis Richardson.
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2019-12-272h 19