Network Performance Engineer

measure, explain, and improve throughput, latency, and congestion.

≈ 150 hBadge: Performance Analyst

Who it is for

performance, capacity, and transport engineers.

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PDP-01 · Inside the Linux Kernel Network Stack Follow a single packet from the NIC driver to a socket and back, and say what happens at each step.
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TRN-01 · TCP BBR and Custom Congestion Control Understand BBR's model, read its kernel code, and build and evaluate a custom congestion-control module.
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OBS-03 · Automated Network Testing with TRex and Kitune Script repeatable traffic tests, collect and analyze the results, and publish a benchmark report.
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OBS-02 · Cloud-Native Network Performance and Monitoring Find the bottleneck in a cluster network, measure it, and set an SLA you can keep.
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RDM-02 · RoCEv2 and Converged Fabric Deployment Design, configure, and troubleshoot a lossless Ethernet fabric that carries RDMA alongside TCP/IP.

Benchmark report with a congestion-control experiment (CAP-10)

Every course in the path can be taken on its own, in any order.