Linux tracing systems and how they fit together
I'm surprised Brendan Gregg hasn't been mentioned here yet. He's the Linux tracing/profiling god.<p><a href="http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html</a><p>Don't get me wrong, I respect Julia Evans as a professional, but what she mostly does is simplify other people's hard work and in-depth analysis of difficult problems in various layers of the technology stack.