Parca, with Frederic Branczyk

Mar 9, 2022

The 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.

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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 Managed Service for Prometheus is GA
• k8ssandra 2.0: operator boogaloo
• Merbridge: eBPF for Istio by DaoCloud
• New Kubernetes experience in New Relic
• CVE-2022-0492 coverage:
  • Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks
  • Jordy Zomer

Links from the interview

• Frederic Branczyk
• Over-engineering coffee:
  • Niche Zero grinder
  • Decent Espresso
• Prometheus
  • Creation at SoundCloud
• Observing the Kubernetes stack:
  • SIG Instrumentation
  • kube-state-metrics
  • Prometheus Operator
  • Thanos
  • Grafana Loki
• Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers
• Shades of blue are no joke when they make you $200m
• KubeCon EU 2019 Keynote: …What Does the Future Hold for Observability? - Tom Wilkie & Frederic Branczyk
• Polar Signals
• Parca
  • Introducing Parca and getting funded
  • Parca on GitHub
• Episode 163, with Thomas Dullien
• Flame graphs and icicle graphs
• PARCA: Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment
• Pyrra by Matthias Loibl
• Frederic Branczyk on Twitter