My Notes On Profiling A Python Microservice Using py-spy And VS Code
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
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Overview
This article is a follow up to my previous article [1] where I walked through my workflow to profile python code using VS Code. The application we wanted to profile was a chatbot and the main tool used there was cProfile. Let’s call this approach the cProfile method.
Now, this article will show how do the same using py-spy.
Why write another article that discusses the same problem? Because as we will see, the py-spy approach is sufficiently different to warrant its own explanation and will probably be the preferred approach to quickly identify the cause of a performance issue.
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