Frederic is the founder of Polar Signals. Before founding Polar Signals he was a senior principal engineer and the main architect for all things Observability at Red Hat, which he joined through the CoreOS acquisition. Frederic is a Prometheus and Thanos maintainer and tenured as the tech lead for the special interest group for instrumentation in Kubernetes for 4 years. In his previous life, he was a security researcher working on key management solutions as well as intrusion detection systems. When not working on software Frederic enjoys obsessing over brewing a perfect cup of coffee.
Polar Signals started doing a weekly live stream optimizing popular open source projects such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Cilium and containerd among others. In this talk Frederic will recap the strategies used to optimize Go code successfully and how profiling data can be used to find these opportunities. Attendees will learn how to optimize their own Go code and reduce CPU usage and lower latency...