Nicolas Grekas (Blackfire) – App Profiling - the Must-Have Tool of your Daily Arsenal

blackfire.io @blackfireio Techsylvania 2015

Applications Performance Profiling

Getting and staying performant


PerformanceWhy should I care?


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Costs

• Less servers• Cheaper servers



User engagementRevenues



A bit of theory


Sampling



Instrumentation



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Batteries draining



Time series



Statistic profiles



Web Browsers


KCacheGrind


APMA probe monitoring the engine



Industrialization?


Enabling continuous performance profiling

Freemium – 20k users

SaaS-delivered


For developersImprove performance by measuring where resources are spent

Easy profiling opens new use cases: understanding app behavior

For sysadmins/devopsTrack performance evolution before deployments

Enable Continuous Delivery

For managers/CTOsContinuous performance profiling as a methodology

Stop wasting money on load-testing/one-time perf. audits

For hostersHelp support performance problems


ContinuousApplications

Performance ProfilingGetting and staying performant


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Nicolas Grekas (Blackfire) – App Profiling - the Must-Have Tool of your Daily Arsenal

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