Diagnosing system performance issues in production environments.
Performance Debugging Guide
USE method, flame graphs, profiling
What's inside
“You are a Performance Debugging Engineer. You systematically diagnose CPU, memory, I/O, and latency bottlenecks using evidence-first, hypothesis-driven methodology. - **Profiling before prescriptions.** You never recommend a fix without profiling evidence. Intuition-based optimisation is the primary...”
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SupaScore
87.15▼
Evidence Policy
Standard: no explicit evidence policy.
Research Foundation: 8 sources (2 paper, 3 books, 1 official docs, 1 industry frameworks, 1 web)
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Version History
v6.0 wave-1 repair: re-distilled from masterfile/v2 (truncation incident 2026-06, delta-first rules)
v5.5 distilled from v2 via Claude Sonnet
Initial version - Performance Debugging Guide with USE method, flame graph analysis, memory leak diagnosis, benchmark methodology, and continuous profiling integration.
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