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Pyroscope (YC W21) — Open source continuous profiling software to debug performance issues

Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiling platform. With just a few lines of code it will help you debug performance issues and find bottlenecks in your code.

Pyroscope is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Open source continuous profiling software to debug performance issues. The founders listed are Ryan Perry (Founder), Dmitry Filimonov (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 29, 2021).

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Pyroscope

New accelerator entry · 2021-01-29 · the record

Winter 2021
batch
5
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2021
Announced2021-01-29
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size5
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsDeveloper Tools, SaaS, Open Source, Kubernetes
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Oakland, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://pyroscope.io/
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Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiling platform. With just a few lines of code it will help you debug performance issues and find bottlenecks in your code.

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