Thor Hansen

Articles by Thor Hansen

Design Decisions of a Continuous Profiler

The tradeoffs and considerations building continuous, fleet-wide profilers.

December 14, 2022

Continuous-Profiling

High Cardinality

Optimizing Your Programs with Continuous Profiling

An example of using continuous profiling to inform code improvements.

August 30, 2022

Continuous-Profiling

Winter is coming - FrostDB in Prometheus

FrostDB is an embedded columnar database built for observability data. This article will explore FrostDB's potential by using it in Prometheus.

How we build our APIs: From Scratch

In a previous post we detailed how we build our APIs here at Polar Signals. But we're going back to basics, in this tutorial we'll teach you how to build a small App from API to implementation.

February 22, 2022

How we build our gRPC APIs at Polar Signals using buf

Tools and strategies that we use to build APIs that we love at Polar Signals.

November 11, 2021

Perfessor - Continuous Profiling Without Instrumentation

Continuously profiling your applications without having to make modifications!

Introducing Polar Signals' Pprof Profile Sharing Service

Our first publicly available service, to upload and share pprof profiles.

February 9, 2021