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SREs & Linux Systems Administrators

Linux Performance Tuning: perf & ftrace & bpftrace

4 weeks
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Jul 23

“The standard toolkit for diagnosing why production Linux systems are slow. This comprehensive curriculum is designed to give you hands-on experience with Linux Performance Tuning: perf & ftrace & bpftrace.”

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About this Course

The standard toolkit for diagnosing why production Linux systems are slow. This comprehensive curriculum is designed to give you hands-on experience with Linux Performance Tuning: perf & ftrace & bpftrace. This SREs & Linux Systems Administrators curriculum is designed to give you hands-on experience and deep conceptual understanding. Across 4 intensive modules, you'll tackle real-world challenges and build practical projects that reinforce your learning. By the end of this journey, you'll have the skills and proof of work to demonstrate your expertise.

What you'll learn

Master the core concepts of cpu & hardware counter analysis with perf.
Gain hands-on experience with kernel function tracing with ftrace & trace-cmd.
Understand the architecture behind ebpf-powered observability with bpftrace.
Implement production-grade system bottleneck diagnostics & kernel tuning.

Prerequisites

intermediate Level

Requires basic familiarity with the tech stack.

  • Familiarity with core concepts

Ideal for

SREs & Linux Systems Administrators

SREs & Linux Systems Administrators Professionals
Tech Enthusiasts
W1

CPU & Hardware Counter Analysis with perf

Master the core concepts of cpu & hardware counter analysis with perf.

3 videos•136m
3 readings
3 topics
1 homework
Learn

Topics

1.1
Hardware Performance Counters & PMU Events
45 minutes
1.2
Flame Graphs & Sampling Profiling
50 minutes
1.3
Annotating Assembly & Cache Line Contention
41 minutes

Study Resources

→9 Useful Commands to Get CPU Information on Linux→Sangoma Documentation Home - Sangoma Documentation Home...→CPU frequency scaling - ArchWiki
W2

Kernel Function Tracing with ftrace & trace-cmd

Gain hands-on experience with kernel function tracing with ftrace & trace-cmd.

3 videos•50m
3 readings
3 topics
1 homework
Learn
W3

eBPF-Powered Observability with bpftrace

Understand the architecture behind ebpf-powered observability with bpftrace.

3 videos•107m
3 readings
3 topics
1 homework
Learn
W4

System Bottleneck Diagnostics & Kernel Tuning

Implement production-grade system bottleneck diagnostics & kernel tuning.

3 videos•59m
3 readings
3 topics
1 homework
Learn
01

Learn

Watch curated videos and read study resources

02

Practice

Practice what you learned

03

Build Projects

Build projects using your new gained knowledge

04

Submit & Verify

Submit your project and get verified by our system

References

019 Useful Commands to Get CPU Information on Linux
02Sangoma Documentation Home - Sangoma Documentation Home...
03CPU frequency scaling - ArchWiki
04ftrace - Function Tracer — The Linux Kernel documentation
05Analyze the Linux kernel with ftrace | Opensource.com
06Kernel Tracing with ftrace, Part 2 - Open Source For You
07GitHub - bpftrace/bpftrace: High-level tracing language for Linux
08eBPF for DevOps: Monitoring & Security | Valebyte
09Linux eBPF Tracing Tools
10Tune Up: Optimizing Linux Performance | DigitalOcean
11SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 System Analysis and Tuning Guide
12Linux System Performance Tuning: Optimizing CPU, Memory, and Disk | Linux Journal

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