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Ryan Perry

Principal Product Manager

Ryan is an Indiana native who made the transition from business to coding after working in corporate jobs. After completing a coding bootcamp, they moved to Oakland, CA, and have since worked at startups, co-founded an OSS startup (Pyroscope), and successfully merged it with Grafana Phlare. In their free time, they enjoy basketball, video games (especially Smash Bros!), cooking, and indulging in some guilty pleasure reality TV.

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Ryan Perry · 11 Mar 2024 · 7 min read

How to use PGO and Grafana Pyroscope to optimize Go applications

Profile-guided optimization (PGO) is a powerful tool to boost application performance. With continuous profiling, you can magnify those performance...

Continuous profiling

Engineering

Ryan Perry · 6 Feb 2024 · 5 min read

Combining tracing and profiling for enhanced observability: Introducing Span Profiles

Span Profiles, a new feature in Grafana Cloud and Grafana OSS, enables deeper analysis of both tracing and profiling data for a more granular view of...

Continuous profiling

Engineering

Ryan Perry · 29 Aug 2023 · 5 min read

Grafana Pyroscope 1.0 release: continuous profiling for a modern open source observability stack

We're proud to share the release of Grafana Pyroscope 1.0, the open source continuous profiling database built to ingest, store, and query workloads...

Continuous profiling

Grafana Pyroscope

Ryan Perry · 9 Aug 2023 · 5 min read

Unify your observability signals with Grafana Cloud Profiles, now GA

Correlating continuous profiles with metrics, logs, and traces in the Grafana Cloud observability stack gives teams new ways to improve application...

Continuous profiling

Grafana Cloud

Grafana Pyroscope