Linux Performance Tools
Brendan Gregg·2015·Velocity·1 hr 30 minBrendan Gregg's tour of the Linux observability toolbox — what each tool measures, when to reach for it, and a methodology for going from 'it's slow' to a real answer.
Visualizing Performance with Flame Graphs
Brendan Gregg·2017·USENIXATCHow a simple visualization of sampled stack traces became the default lens for CPU profiling — and how Gregg uses it to find real wins in real systems.
HTTP/2 is Here, Let's Optimize!
Ilya Grigorik·2015·VelocityIlya Grigorik explains what HTTP/2 actually changes on the wire — multiplexing, prioritisation, server push — and which old optimisations you should stop doing.
How Complex Systems Fail
Richard Cook unpacks his classic essay live: there is no root cause, safety is something people continuously create, and catastrophe is the alignment of many small latent failures.
Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind
Bryan Cantrill·2017·GOTOCantrill on the discipline of debugging production systems in real time — staying analytical when the pager is screaming and the business is bleeding.
Owning Your Performance: RAIL
Paul Irish·2015·Chrome Dev SummitPaul Irish demonstrates the RAIL model and walks through diagnosing real performance problems live in Chrome DevTools.
Data-Oriented Design and C++
Mike Acton·2014·CppConMike Acton on how modern CPUs really work, and why most of what 'clean code' calls good is actively at war with performance.