What do oranges & flame graphs have in common? (Ship It! #57)

Published: June 17, 2022, 6:45 p.m.

Today we are talking with Frederic Branczyk, founder of Polar Signals & Prometheus maintainer. You may remember Frederic from episode 33 when we introduced Parca.dev. \n\nThis time, we talk about a database built for observability: FrostDB, formerly known as ArcticDB. eBPF generates a lot of high cardinality data, which requires a new approach to writing, persisting & then reading back this state.\n\nTL;DR FrostDB is sub zero cool & well worthy of its name.