I use performance monitoring tools primarily to find slow and buggy code. At the start of development, I typically use the tools more for finding software bugs. Once the codebase is at a relatively stable phase, then I shift my focus toward finding less performant code. Which is why I turn to tools like Retrace to help with profiling for …
3 Types of PHP Profilers and Why You Need All of Them
Over the span of two decades, a lot of information was made available online to unearth the full potential of PHP. It is one of the most popular programming languages in the world, and some say it’s one of the easiest to learn. It’s usage statistics placed it in the top ten. Still, even the best languages need some help. …
Prefix New Release: Prefix v3.0 is Here!
After months of hard work, we’re thrilled to release the latest version of Prefix, Prefix v3.0. In this new version, we fixed a number of bugs and added a few major enhancements including: A major .NET profiler update Better remote tracing New feature: the ability to disable suggestions Improved Remote Tracing with Prefix v3.0 One of Prefix’s key features has …
Top Visual Studio Code Extensions: 50 Powerful Tools
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code provides developers with a robust marketplace packed with useful tools and extensions that make VS Code even more functional and customizable to meet every developer’s needs. New extensions are added regularly, and you can find tools, libraries of snippets, and just about anything else you could want to streamline the development process. In fact, Stackify Prefix …
What is Code Profiling? Learn the 3 Types of Code Profilers
For those of you do do not know a lot about Stackify, we do a lot of things around application performance and have actually written a couple profilers ourselves. We know a lot about code profiling for .NET and Java. Today I want to talk about the three different types of profilers and describe the differences between them and talk …