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• Profiling is the act of analyzing the performance of applications in order to improve poorly performing sections of code
• Flame graphs are a popular way to visualize a profile
• The challenges of profiling include overhead and modifying code
• Cuba City Flame is a tool that aims to make profiling effortless by removing the need to do code modifications and by doing profiling without having to do a deployment
• The future of profiling includes ephemera containers, ebpf, and continuous profiling tools