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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 30/09/2026

Using Amp Code on my phone from within my Waymo while driving to pick up my badge for “The AI conference” is the most 2026 thing I've done this year.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 25/09/2026

About to start my talk on performance engineering in the age of AI. Come and see it at WeAreDevelopers at stage 3!

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 22/09/2026

In sunny San Jose this week for WeAreDevelopers. Who else is gonna be there? Also don’t have dinner plans yet today if you’re up for talking observability, performance and/or GPUs 🤓

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 10/09/2026

At signals conf today, come say hi! Fun fact: the prep dinner for Signals Conf is where the idea for the Polar Signals <> Dash0 acquisition idea originated!

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 17/08/2026

🚀 Polar Signals is Joining Dash0! 🧊 I could not be more excited to bring continuous profiling to even more companies as well as take our database and make it the best foundation it can be for all of Observability! www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

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Polar Signals is Joining Dash0 | Polar Signals

The next chapter for continuous profiling, our database, and the team

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 28/07/2026

Flamecharts combined with distributed tracing correlation is such an amazing feature! I love inspecting eg. queries that customers run on Polar Signals this way to see if the query is properly utilizing all cores uninterrupted!

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Max Inden @mxinden.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

We have an open position for a student worker on the Firefox Networking team in Germany. We work on the full stack, from high level HTTP all the way down to TCP / UDP. Some C++, some Rust. Help us fight for an open internet for everyone. www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/posit…

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Mozilla Careers — Necko Student Worker — Open Positions

Mozilla is hiring a Necko Student Worker in Remote Canada, Firefox, New Products, Firefox, Core Services, Firefox, Mozilla Foundation, Core Services, Mozilla.org, New…

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Polar Signals @polarsignals.com · 14/07/2026

The Polar Signals profiler got a major upgrade. New dashboard, and everything is faster and smoother 🚀 We can’t wait for you to try it out! Here's what's new and how we did it: www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

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Our new and faster profiler dashboard | Polar Signals

Learn more about our new and improved profiler dashboard.

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Thor @thorfour.dev · 07/07/2026

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Polar Signals @polarsignals.com · 30/06/2026

Less context, better answers. 🔥 The new @polarsignals.com MCP makes smaller, more effective tool calls and iterates on what's actually worth querying. www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

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Iteratively explore your flame graphs with the MCP sandwich tool | Polar Signals

Don't bloat your LLM's context. Let it iteratively explore the parts of your flame graphs that actually matter.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 24/06/2026

In a very twisted turn of events AI is actually causing this, yes. GPUs that are undesirable for AI purposes are getting affordable to make a difference. Here’s a price per performance calculation with equal cost machines: github.com/gabotechs/li...

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GitHub - gabotechs/libcudf-rs: Rust bindings for libcudf

Rust bindings for libcudf. Contribute to gabotechs/libcudf-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 24/06/2026

Super excited to be experimenting with GPU-accelerated query execution (starting with decoding data on-GPU). We're still learning, but this is very exciting!

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Polar Signals @polarsignals.com · 18/06/2026

Ever wondered how a profiler knows which JavaScript function is hot when V8 compiles your code three different ways? Brennan went deep on unwinding and symbolizing V8 stacks across Sparkplug, Maglev, and TurboFan. The detective work behind every flame graph. 🔥 www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

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Profiling Internals: JavaScript on V8 | Polar Signals

How Profilers Work: Part 3

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 10/06/2026

Today we're launching the missing piece for GPU profiling in open source. The team has really outdone themselves in this one!

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 22/05/2026

Got to troubleshoot what is probably one of the weirdest/most interesting bugs of my career yesterday and today. This one is probably going to deserve a write-up. Thankfully, we heavily dogfood our product, and as a result, customers had no impact.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 20/05/2026

We care *deeply* (pun intended) about producing the highest quality data for our customers. Incomplete stacks are never great, check out this super fascinating write-up from Tommy on how we vastly improved unwinding of deep python stacks.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 13/05/2026

Been lightly using a gemma4 26B model with an mlx backend via lm studio and wow it’s incredibly good! Just for some random small chats, but it’s been surprisingly good.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 06/05/2026

Really excited about what Polar Signals Cloud can do in a world where more and more code is written by LLMs. Give the LLMs the context they deserve! Also: Check out our new slick website!

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 30/04/2026

I wrote about our team’s code review norms, which I am grateful are deeply human.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 28/04/2026

Huge! If I recall correctly, at Red Hat, we had a fork of the Go compiler forcing everyone to link against some FIPS-certified OpenSSL. This would have saved us a lot of headaches. Congrats!

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Alfonso Subiotto @asubiotto.com · 28/04/2026

We've been working on a major schema migration at @polarsignals.com that has unlocked some pretty wild improvements. Apart from a 50% (!!) reduction in storage size thanks to logical compression in vortex.dev, there has been a dramatic improvement in query performance.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 16/04/2026

Hey @anthropic.com, hear me out: Multi-player claude code sessions. Sharing the same claude code session with my team.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 15/04/2026

TypeScript users can now enjoy Polar Signals Cloud to the fullest as well!

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 09/04/2026

Does it? For me it seems that only cursor does it, but I just re-authed and will see in a bit. Also of course possible we messed up! Cursor seems to work flawlessly for us.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 09/04/2026

Shout out to Cursor for (to my knowledge) being the only MCP OAuth client that implements token refreshes! It makes a huge difference for users not having to re-auth all the time.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 08/04/2026

/buddy off Fun idea, but in practice, annoying and distracting.

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Polar Signals @polarsignals.com · 30/03/2026

We caught up with @bwplotka.dev at KubeCon EU. He's excited about semantic conventions across OTel and Prometheus finally becoming practical, and AI tools changing how open source is built. #KubeCon #OpenTelemetry #Prometheus youtube.com/shorts/QF3Yk...

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Bartek Plotka at KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam

YouTube video by Polar Signals

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 30/03/2026

Periodic reminder that O(1) is not equal O(1). Your constant matters.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 26/03/2026

A historic step for profiling within the OpenTelemetry project!

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Polar Signals @polarsignals.com · 26/03/2026

We caught up with Felix earlier this week at KubeCon EU, and TODAY he's presenting on the OpenTelemetry profiling signal reaching alpha, together with Florian. 📍 15:15, Hall 8, Room F Profiling as a first-class signal in OTel is huge. Don't miss it!

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 24/03/2026

@metalmatze.de and I are at KubeCon! Hit us up if you wanna chat observability and continuous profiling!

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 20/03/2026

I'll be at KubeCon next week. I don't have many slots left, but if you wanna hang out or chat about profiling and all things observability! DM me, and I'm happy to find time!

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Polar Signals @polarsignals.com · 16/03/2026

At #QConLondon? Check out @asubiotto.com's talk on how we test our database(s) in an effort to not let critical bugs ever hit production! Today at 10:35AM GMT. Location Windsor (5th Fl.) Track Native Languages - and Wasm qconlondon.com/presentation...

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QCon London 2026 | A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) Journey: From WASM in Go to State Machines in Rust

Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 10/03/2026

See profiling data right in your IDE/texteditor! (*and* make it available to your favorite AI)

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 24/02/2026

This one has been a long time coming, excited to finally have shipped it!

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 19/02/2026

If you ever wondered how profilers work 🤓

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 18/02/2026

Without requiring privileges and Kubernetes-specific code (I realize you could have passed the node name via downward API and check, but that requires privileges and Kubernetes-specific code).

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 18/02/2026

There has been a really exciting movement in Kubernetes to actually acknowledge datacenter topology, and I don't see enough people talking about it. This one might seem small, but it opens up possibilities for applications needing to care about network topology. kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12...

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Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)

Editors: Aakanksha Bhende, Arujjwal Negi, Chad M. Crowell, Graziano Casto, Swathi Rao Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.35 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features.…

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Alfonso Subiotto @asubiotto.com · 17/02/2026

I'm happy to share that I will be speaking at #QConLondon on March 16 on deterministic simulation testing at Polar Signals. For anyone interested in attending: SPEAKER60QUK26 for £60 off

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 12/02/2026

We just made it even more convenient to use Polar Signals with your favorite AI!

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 11/02/2026

The payloads are often ~10mb or higher, and lz4 still has a ~2.5x compression rate on this particular data.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 11/02/2026

Nice write-up! We recently did a similar latency analysis to decide whether or not to compress a payload we return to a user. Even a purejs lz4 implementation easily did close to 700mb/s. So breakeven is at a user having a >5gbit/s conn, which no client of ours has, therefore no-brainer.

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 11/02/2026

Another @github.com outage? Actions not starting/reported.

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