perf-report

Perf Report!

Perf Report is a free program to generate a full systems performance PDF report on a kubernetes cluster.

Below is a list of general performance engineering resources (and some kubernetes resources too).

Performance Resources

• 60 second analysis from Section 3.3 of BPF Performance Tools
• Chapter resources from the BPF Performance Tools book
• bpftrace man page
• Linux Tracing Docs - kernel version 5.4
• Linux Tracing BPF Docs - kernel version 5.4
• Linux Tracing Technologies
• Cilium BPF and XDP Reference Guide
• Cilium BPF and XDP Reference Guide - Further Reading
• https://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html
• https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph
• https://github.com/Netflix/flamescope
• https://github.com/iovisor/kubectl-trace
• https://man7.org/index.html
• https://github.com/kvaps/kubectl-node-shell
• https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/events.txt
• https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt
• https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
• https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
• https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace#tools
• https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/tree/master/tools
• https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
• https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/tree/master/examples
• https://github.com/iovisor/ply
• PXL Scripts Overview
• https://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html
• https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-01-01/learn-ebpf-tracing.html
• https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/docs/reference_guide.md
• bpftrace probes
• bpftrace variables
• https://github.com/brendangregg/pmc-cloud-tools
• Ilya Grigorik homepage
• C++ Core Guidelines - Performance

Books and Videos

• https://www.brendangregg.com/systems-performance-2nd-edition-book.html
• https://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html
• https://www.amazon.com/Art-Writing-Efficient-Programs-optimizations/dp/1800208111
• Very important video: Mike Acton discussing data-oriented design
• Mike Acton at HandmadeCon 2015
• Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix • Brendan Gregg • YOW! 2018
• Brendan Gregg talks about Extended BPF - A new software type
• CppCon 2017: Carl Cook “When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++” - whole video is great, but pointed to a fun part of the video
• Ilya Grigorik - Mobile frontends and networking - Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier
• Ilya Grigorik - High Performance Browser Networking - O’Reilly
• The Linux Programming Interface
• CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”
• Branchless Programming in C++ - Fedor Pikus - CppCon 2021
• CppCon 2016: Fedor Pikus “The speed of concurrency (is lock-free faster?)”
• Core C++ 2019 :: Avi Kivity :: Building efficient I/O intensive applications with Seastar
• How to Make Linux Microservice-Aware with Cilium and eBPF
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Production Kubernetes
• Building Event-Driven Microservices
• A Guided Tour of Cilium Service Mesh - Liz Rice, Isovalent
• Hello eBPF! Goodbye Sidecar?

Observability Tools

• https://www.instana.com/
• https://sysdig.com/
• https://www.loggly.com/
• https://grafana.com/
• Atlas time series datastore
• Istio Observability
• Pixie
• Cilium and Hubble

Documentation and Dataviz Resources

• https://pandoc.org/
• https://godotengine.org/
• https://galaxy.opensyllabus.org/

Courses

• Ilya Grigorik - Website Performance Optimization - The Critical Rendering Path
• MIT OCW - Performance Engineering Of Software Systems
• Kube Academy

Analysis by Component

• Install
• CPU
• Memory
• Filesystem or Disk
• Network

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