2025-09-25 –, Orbit
Microlog is a lightweight continuous profiler and logger for Python that helps developers understand their applications through interactive visualizations and AI-powered insights. With extremely low overhead and a 100% Python stack, it makes it easy to trace performance issues, debug unexpected behavior, and gain visibility into production systems.
Modern Python applications are often opaque, especially in production. Debugging performance issues, understanding complex workflows, and tracing unexpected behavior can feel like navigating in the dark. Traditional logging solutions and profilers are either too invasive, too noisy, or too hard to interpret.
Microlog is a lightweight continuous profiler and logger designed to make Python application behavior visible, explainable, and actionable. With interactive in-browser visualizations and AI-assisted insights, Microlog helps developers and data practitioners diagnose performance problems and understand their applications like never before — all with minimal overhead and minimal external dependencies.
In this talk, we will introduce Microlog’s design and philosophy, walk through live examples, and demonstrate how it can be used to identify hidden issues in production, debug faster, and ultimately write better software. Whether you're maintaining a large service, building ML pipelines, or just tired of guessing what your code is doing — this tool was built for you.
Microlog is an open-source project: https://github.com/micrologai/microlog
Chris Laffra is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in leadership, communication, and technology. Having worked at leading tech companies like Google and Uber, as well as major financial institutions such as Bank of America and JP Morgan, Chris has built a career focused on fostering effective communication and leadership within engineering teams.
Chris is also an accomplished author, with books on communication that cater specifically to engineers, aiming to make them more effective, productive, impactful, and happy in their roles. Additionally, Chris has taught numerous day-long masterclasses that delve into these topics, empowering engineers to excel both individually and as part of a team.