Introduction Brendan Gregg invented and popularized a way to profile & visualize program response time by sampling stack traces and using his FlameGraph concept & tools. This technique is a great way for visualizing metrics in nested hierarchies, what stack-based program execution uses under the hood for invoking and tracking function calls. If you don’t know what FlameGraphs are, I suggest you read Brendan’s explanation first. In this blog post I won’t be doing traditional stack profil...
