Interviews

The compound effect is when small changes executed consistently over time lead to dramatic results. It can go both ways, either enhancing the positives or aggravating the problems. Regular profiling, or lack thereof, is a good example of the compound effect. If you invest a little bit of time in making small but steady improvements in your application’s performance, they can lead to huge benefits over time. And vice versa, if you keep neglecting issues, they will compound, and sooner or later you’ll have a sluggish and unwieldy piece of software on your hands. More often than not, developer

Some memory issues are non-critical, but rather annoying. They occur once every couple of months and then disappear again. Of course, these annoying bugs only show up once an application is operating under production conditions. However, such problems can often be solved using a profiler. Shyam Sundar shares one such story in this interview. Hey Shyam! Could you briefly introduce yourself and tell us about the activities you are mainly involved in at work? I’m Shyam, and I live in Culver City, California. Currently, I work for Amazon, but until recently, I worked for a company called B

You can develop fairly efficient applications straight away without a profiler, but if you work with third-party code via API, then bottlenecks will occur quite often. It is impossible to predict, but it is still possible to account for third-party code specifics without having the code itself. One story like this was shared by Jonas Meer in this interview. Hi Jonas! Could you briefly introduce yourself and tell us about the work you are involved in? I work at a small startup called aurivus. So I do many things there, but mainly I'm a software developer in .NET and sometimes in C++. I

Today, we would like to share a few user stories about using the dotTrace performance profiler. We will tell you how a flaw was found in the new Intel CPUs' architecture, as well as how to find application performance problems when testing in the conventional sense is impossible. We’ll also share some tips and tricks and explain why you should use profilers more often than you probably do. Hi, Kevin! Could you briefly introduce yourself and tell us about the work activities you are mainly involved in? I have been working as a staff engineer at Datadog for a bit more than a year now. Th

For the past year and a half we've been running the Early Access Program for Rider for Unreal Engine – our new IDE for developing games in C++ using Unreal Engine. The program has attracted tens of thousands of indie game developers as well as numerous gamedev studios and companies of all sizes. We were curious to discover what they value the most in the product, what they like about it, and what they might be missing. We decided to talk with Viacheslav Dubikovsky, Technical Director at Wargaming RED, a gamedev studio that recently opened in Moscow, Russia, as part of Wargaming Group Limi