Sasha Goldshtein, CTO, Sela Group
Node runs on a powerful JavaScript engine, but that same engine can complicate things when it comes to obtaining accurate information on your application's performance. There are plenty of tools for profiling C++ or Java applications, but understanding JavaScript interactions with native code can be extremely challenging. In this talk we will discuss profiling options for Node.js, including perf_events, dtrace, the V8's engine built-in --prof switch, and tools based on the bleeding-edge kernel BPF technology. We will also talk about turning profiler results into flame graphs, an innovative visualization tool for understanding stack sample reports, and for figuring out the time split across the JavaScript and native parts of your application.
Sasha Goldshtein, CTO, Sela Group
Sasha Goldshtein is the CTO of Sela Group, a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, and international consultant and trainer. Sasha is the author of two books and multiple online courses, and a prolific blogger. He is also an active open source contributor to projects focused on system diagnostics, performance monitoring, and tracing—across multiple operating systems and runtimes. Sasha authored and delivered training courses on Linux performance optimization, event tracing, production debugging, mobile application development, and modern C++. Between his consulting engagements, Sasha speaks at international conferences world-wide.
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author = {Sasha Goldshtein},
title = {Profiling Node Applications},
year = {2017},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}