Stop firefigthing with Blackfire!

From fire to Blackfire: building a long-term observability strategy.

Discover how to regain control of the performance of your applications and stay in control at all times.

Talks delivered during SymfonyCon 2023 in Brussels.
https://live.symfony.com/2023-brussels-con/

Transcript

1. From 🔥 to : building a long-term observability strategy with Blackfire
2. • To regain control • Stop firefighting A talk on how:
3. • Based in Lyon, France • Former designer and educator • Loves cooking and baking • Visual art, storytelling, photography • @thomasdiluccio.bsky.social Thomas di Luccio (He/Him) DevRel @ Platform.sh, Upsun, Blackfire Who am I?
4. I hate working under pressure Midjourney a minimalist abstract representation of working under fire, crisis, inferno
5. What do you do when your production is down?
6. 🔥 Firefight 🔥
7. Tool n°1: profiler
8. 1. Profiler • Try it yourself! + Go to www.book.b7e.io and trigger your first profile. + No Blackfire subscription required
9. Demo ⬇ www.book.b7e.io
10. failover recording
11. Powerful! Midjourney minimalist abstract representation of a human with a pain in the left arm Provided you have a reliable diagnosis and know which part of your app to profile.
12. Tool n°2: monitoring
13. 2. Monitoring • Try it yourself! + Go to demo.blackfire.io and discover a full Blackfire dashboard.
14. Demo ⬇ demo.blackfire.io
15. failover recording
16. Tool n°3: alerting
17. Tool n°4: health report
18. Our observability toolbox so far: • Reactive tool: + Blackfire Profiler • Proactive tools: + Blackfire Monitoring + Alerting + Health Report Midjourney minimalist abstract representation of a toolbox
19. Enforcing performance and stability
20. Tool n°5: performance tests
25. Profiles automatically evaluate all matching assertions
26. Tool n°6: performance tests automation
29. Secure critical user journeys
30. Plug your CI/CD pipelines
31. Build your own strategy • Monitoring: when and where • Profiler: why • Fix the issue • Write tests • Repeat
32. Use Blackfire on all environments • local • dev • staging • PR • production
33. Blackfire empowers developers to monitor their applications' real-time behavior and proactively identify existing bottlenecks or the consequences of upcoming changes.
34. Deterministic observability
35. Continuous profiling (coming early 2024)
36. One more thing…
37. 30% lifetime discount on new yearly subscriptions
39. Thank you! Thomas di Luccio DevRel Engineer, Platform.sh thomas.diluccio@platform.sh
40. Thank you!