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Unlocking the Go Execution Tracer: Programmatic Analysis with the Trace API

go tool trace’s web UI gets overwhelming for long-running or highly concurrent applications. This session covers parsing execution traces programmatically with golang.org/x/exp/trace and the newer tracing APIs: consuming .out files, extracting custom metrics like goroutine scheduling latency and GC impact that don’t show up in the default UI, and building custom tooling to find bottlenecks at scale.

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Cristian Velazquez, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Uber

Cristian Velazquez is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the Maps Production Engineering team at Uber. He works on multiple efficiency initiatives across multiple organizations. He leads the GC tuning efforts across the company.