Profilers

Continuous Profiling in Production: What, Why and How

What is continuous profiling?

Performance is crucial to make the system much cheaper. We always found profiling in production an incredibly laborious process. Every time we did it it was a huge win. But we do it very frequently because of how laborious and how risky it is. Engineers don't like going into production doing things because basically, they get the wrong people shouting at them.

Are you going to be talking about specific tools or strategies for implementing tooling?

We talk about different information coming out of existing monitoring systems in terms of metrics and how instrumentation works. We look at some profiling techniques which are JVM specific but would apply to any language that's running on the JVM, Java, Scala and Clojure.