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Have you ever wondered how people find performance bottlenecks and improve them in complex systems? What tools and techniques work in real life applications? When should you stop optimizing? Well, this is the episode for you. Our first ever guest, Bryan Boreham from Grafana Labs, sits down with us and walks us over his experience of optimizing the popular open-source project Prometheus. Before the super insightful discussion on this topic, we cover the tech news from the week that got our attention. Show notes:
Bryan Boreham - follow at @bboreham
Prometheus - https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
Docker puts a stop to sunsetting their free team plans - https://www.docker.com/blog/no-longer-sunsetting-the-free-team-plan/
ChatGPT announces plugins - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
Github Copilot X is announced - https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/
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