[BLU/Officers] Speaker / Topic idea - BPF Tracing

[Bill Ricker]

With coming release of Linux kernel 4.1  with BPF tracing, we should ask
Brendan Gregg if he's coming to Boston in the next 12 months ( OTHER than
the first week of December when he'll probably be here ) ... and if not,
recruit someone else to cover this topic.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Notes from Re: tech meeting THIS TUESDAY - flamegraph.pl A
visualization for Profiler output
To: Boston PM <Boston-pm at mail.pm.org>


Late breaking Update: Brendan Gregg posted on 2016-10-27 that

> "With the final major capability for BPF tracing (timed sampling) merging
> in Linux 4.9-rc1, the Linux kernel now has raw capabilities similar to
> those provided by DTrace, the advanced tracer from Solaris"
>

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html

(and added to notes on http://Boston.PM.org/Calendar2016/ for future
reference )

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> ​Also posted to Boston.PM.org wiki ...
> ​
> Links
>
>    - Brendan Gregg <http://www.brendangregg.com>
>       - FlameGraphs <http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html>
>          - CPU flameGraphs
>          <http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html>
>       - Github <https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/>
>          - flamegraph.pl
>          <https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/blob/master/flamegraph.pl>
>       - DTrace.org Blogs <http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/page/12/>
>       - LISA'13 "Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs
>       <https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/technical-sessions/plenary/gregg>
>       "
>       [image: blazing-performance-with-flame-graphs-1-638.jpg]
>       Blazing Performance with Flamegraphs cover
>       (plenary!)
>          - Video <https://www.youtube.com/embed/nZfNehCzGdw?rel=0>
>             - Start of Advanced section
>             <https://youtu.be/nZfNehCzGdw?t=3353> ... *where we stopped,
>             continue from here*
>          - Slides
>          <http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/28010650>
>          - Interactive Demos
>          <https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/tree/master/demos>
>          on github
>       - Used in CPAN Devel::NYTProf
>    <https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Devel-NYTProf/bin/nytprofhtml>
>       - blog announce by Tim Bunce
>       <https://blog.timbunce.org/2013/04/08/nytprof-v5-flaming-precision/>
>       ​ ​
>
>
>
>    - Julia Evans <http://jvns.ca/> Debugging and general dev blogs &
>    debug zines - where i found the first links
>    [image: debugging-tools-cover-50pc.png]
>    Linux Debugging Tools cover to the above - highly recommended
>       - zines <http://jvns.ca/zines/> -> debugging linux
>       <http://jvns.ca/debugging-zine.pdf> from last week, direct
>       inspiration for this talk
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *​Ricky notes that LISA'16 is in Boston again, DEC 4-6 .*
> ​https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16
>
> *Plenaries include Brendan Gregg (Linux kernel 4.x new tracing),  the
> Radia Perlman and That Tom Limoncelli.*
> *It's more for Sysadmins & DevOps but cool stuff about the OS is cool, and
> understanding how our Apps affect Sysadmins is good too.*
>
> Note NO NOVEMBER tech meeting -
>  2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap year is Election Day
> - I presume most people will be watching a different channel that night.
> Do we want a different night or week ? We usually do social in December.
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1vux at gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>



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Bill Ricker
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux



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Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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