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

Parca, with Frederic Branczyk

Kubernetes Podcast from Google