How One Engineer Debugged a Production Outage Using Flame Graphs
from The Software Engineering Podcast with Fexingo: Code, Architecture, and Engineering Best Practices Hosted by Fexingo
In episode 85 of The Software Engineering Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into a real-world production debugging story where flame graphs turned chaos into clarity. They walk through how a single engineer traced a mysterious CPU spike that was causing intermittent timeouts across a microservices architecture — and how a visual profiling tool cut the investigation from days to hours. Along the way, they explain what flame graphs actually show, why Brendan Gregg popularized them, and how to interpret that terrifying wall of colored rectangles. If you've ever stared at a performance chart and felt lost, this episode gives you a concrete mental model for the next time something catches fire in production. #FlameGraphs #BrendanGregg #PerformanceDebugging #ProductionOutage #CPUSpike #Profiling #Microservices #Observability #LinuxPerf #OnCall #SoftwareEngineering #Debugging #Backend #SiteReliability #DistributedSystems #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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