Continuous Profiling in the Cloud-Native Era

Explore continuous profiling techniques in the cloud-native era through this conference talk from SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa. Discover how Google has consistently reduced fleet-wide resource usage using methods outlined in their "Google-Wide Profiling" paper. Learn about the transition from ad-hoc profiling to continuous profiling and its impact on systematically collecting profiles and enabling new workflows. Gain insights into profiling with Go and see a demonstration of Parca, an open-source continuous profiling project, to understand how it provides unprecedented fleet-wide visibility into code at production runtime. Acquire knowledge on implementing continuous profiling to guide the development of robust, reliable, and performant software while systematically reducing cloud spend across various programming languages.