Hands-on Introduction to Continuous Profiling with Parca

Explore continuous profiling with Parca, an open-source project from Polar Signals, in this hands-on introduction video. Learn how to start profiling your applications, understand the benefits of continuous profiling, and discover Parca's features including production deployment, agent setup, and flame graph analysis. Dive into topics such as port forwarding, dark mode, version comparison, and data ingestion. Gain insights on profiling scope, runtime analysis, memory usage, and microservices implementation. Address common questions about Parca's capabilities and limitations while exploring its practical applications in software development and performance optimization.

Intro
Meet Frederick
What is continuous profiling
Running Parca in production
Why Parca
Audience Question
Parca Agent
Port Forward
Dark Mode
Compare
Compare Versions
Flame Graph 101
Does Parca profile everything
Can Parca compare
Do we only get CPU approved fails
Ingest data into Parca
Embedded entrepreneur
Scoping
Runtime
Memory Usage
TLDR
Autocomplete
Microservices