Matthias Loibl - social.metalmatze.de/@metalmatze

Polar Signals rebranding, website redesign, and development done by our team. < 3 months of teamwork. Built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS.

Recent rebranding work for @PolarSignalsIO

Always happy to see design projects we’ve been working on go live. Enjoy the new brand look for @PolarSignalsIO Over the last few months, we worked on the company’s brand refresh, designed and developed the new website, built multiple apps to speed up brand graphic creation, produced a product explainer reel for the hero section, and created an extensive branding system so every asset feels consistent while still being unique to the brand. Polar Signals wanted to preserve parts of their existing visual identity, especially the original colors and gradients. We used that as a starting point, then refined the color system, created new gradient combinations, and modernized the overall look while keeping a clear connection to the brand’s legacy. We also came up with the new typography and grid system, and blended different visual styles so the brand could support a technical, information-heavy product while still feeling polished, clear, and professional. Proud of how the system came together. Stay tuned for some behind-the-scenes materials from the project.

We've been working on a major schema migration at @PolarSignalsIO that has unlocked some pretty wild improvements. Apart from a 50% (!!) reduction in storage size thanks to logical compression in @vortexdotdev, there has been a dramatic improvement in query performance.

TypeScript users can now enjoy Polar Signals Cloud to the fullest as well!

A historic step for profiling within the OpenTelemetry project!

We caught up with @felixge at KubeCon EU, and TODAY he's presenting on the OTel profiling signal reaching alpha, with Florian. 📍 15:15, Hall 8, Room F Don't miss it! youtube.com/shorts/tBOrMEx…

@PolarSignalsIO @_surbaniak youtube.com/shorts/_IFB2V-… I forgot to paste the video. 😬

"It's absolutely fascinating and overwhelming how big the community is." @_surbaniak on his KubeCon experience - plus a preview of his talk on writing operators the smart way, not the hard way. Wednesday, 15:00 PM. #KubeCon #Kubernetes #CloudNative

The @PrometheusIO ContribFest is underway! Let's learn how to contribute and review PRs for Prometheus!

For the next hour and a half (until 16:30) I'll be at the Prometheus project booth! Come around to talk Prometheus, SLOs and more or just say hi. See you!

For the next hour and a half (until 16:30) I'll be at the @PrometheusIO project booth! Come around to talk Prometheus, SLOs and more or just say hi. See you!

All of this runs through the colima MCP server in Claude Code. claude mcp add-json colima '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","kubernetes-mcp-server@latest"],"env":{"KUBECONFIG":"'${HOME}'/.kube/config"}}' I've allow listed `mcp__colima__*`. Local VM, fully isolated. 🤌

kubectl exec -n observability jaeger-all-in-one-<hash> -- wget -qO- localhost:16686/jaeger/api/services

For local development you don't need a dedicated MCP server for CockroachDB, Prometheus, or Jaeger. Just exec into the container and run commands directly. SQL in cockroach, wget the Prometheus HTTP API, same for Jaeger. 😏

🚀 Introducing the Polar Signals VS Code extension! See CPU time, memory allocations, and more as inline annotations, right next to your code. Works with Polar Signals Cloud and self-hosted Parca. polarsignals.com/blog/posts/202…

OCI image support coming to systemd. I'm getting strong rkt flashbacks. 🥲

Unfortunately, I won't be joining #FOSDEM. I got sick late last week and decided not to contribute to FOSDEM flu and canceled my trip. Have fun everyone! Next conference!

We cut cross-zone traffic for SLO monitoring by 90% using Prometheus subquery optimization. The trick: pre-aggregate data locally instead of shuffling 55M raw samples to Thanos queriers. Coming soon to Pyrra! 🚀 polarsignals.com/blog/posts/202…