Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Polar Signals CEO and founder Frederic Branczyk joins Google’s Kelsey Hightower and me to discuss the evolution of infrastructure management, and the increasing importance of continuous profiling as an observability tool for modern developer operations (DevOps) organizations.

Read more: gv.com/news/polar-signals-kelsey-hightower-devops

0:00 Introductions
1:35 Early days at CoreOS
3:43 Why is observability important in DevOps?
6:33 Old School vs. New School
8:15 Continuous profiling
10:54 What is Parca?
12:21 Who is the target customer?
16:14 eBPF Container Monitoring
17:41 What does Polar Signals do differently?
20:45 What does the future look like?
24:23 How do you choose where to focus your efforts?
26:06 Building companies remotely
30:57 Kelsey’s work with GV companies