Presentation: Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too

September 3, 2026 · 9:28 am 1 sources

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• Presentation: Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too
  InfoQ · September 3, 2026 09:28
  Brian Martin discusses the real-world performance costs of metrics libraries and shares strategies for low-overhead, "fearless" instrumentation. Drawing from his work at IOP Systems, he explores atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding, lock-free histograms, and eBPF integration to help software…