Visualizing Performance with Flame Graphs
Brendan Gregg·2017·USENIXATC·30 minHow 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.
Linux Performance Tools
Brendan Gregg·2015·VelocityBrendan 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.
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.
Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
Rich Harris·2023·Svelte Society NYCHarris revisits the SPA-vs-MPA argument through the lens of edge runtimes — and pushes back on the idea that SSR-everywhere is a victory for users.
Stop Writing Dead Programs
Jack Rusher·2022·Strange LoopJack Rusher argues that most of our languages are still, accidentally, designed around the punchcard — and shows what a living programming environment could look like instead.