142: Orion for Distributed Tracing in Production
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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Flame Graph Tooling - What Is It?
Flamom and Orion are two tools that can be used together to create a performance profiling tool for Elixir. The idea is the same as flame on where you start it and then get data about all the calls that were done during the time you observed, right? You record it. It's not really what you want in production or when trying to find out why your code is slow. So they use dynamic tracing which enables them to do this relatively cheaply but safely. They're both written in Erlang so there isn't too much of a difference with other languages.
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