Systems Performance & Debugging Engineer

Find the real bottleneck, under pressure, with evidence.

5 courses 133 hours of instructionBadge: Performance Engineer

Who it is for

Performance, SRE and escalation engineers who get handed 'it is slow'.

The sequence

  1. 1
    PRF-101 · Systems Performance Methodology & Benchmarking 3 days
  2. 2
    DBG-101 · Kernel Crash Dump Analysis & Live Debugging 4 days
  3. 3
    DBG-201 · Kernel Tracing & Profiling with ftrace & perf 4 days
  4. 4
    DBG-220 · eBPF & bpftrace Systems Observability 4 days
  5. 5
    PRF-220 · I/O & Network Performance Tuning 4 days

Capstone

Diagnose a degraded production system from symptom to root cause with counters, traces and a benchmark that survives review.

Start with the first course

Every course in the path can be taken on its own. Dates are on the course page.

PRF-101