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  • The No Asshole Rule Recommends

    The No Asshole Rule - Robert I. Sutton (Business Plus, 2010)

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  • The Worst Journey in the World Recommends

    The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Penguin, 2006/1922)

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  • Skunk Works Recommends

    Skunk Works - Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos (Black Bay Books, 1996)

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  • Where Wizards Stay Up Late Recommends

    Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

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  • Just For Fun Recommends

    Just For Fun - Linus Torvalds (Harper, 2002)

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  • UNIX: A History and a Memoir Recommends

    UNIX: A History and a Memoir - Brian W Kernighan (independent, 2019)

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  • The AWK Programming Language Recommends

    The AWK Programming Language - Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger (Addison Wesley, 1988)

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  • The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed. Recommends

    The C Programming Language 2nd Ed. - Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie (Prentice Hall, 1988)

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  • Expert C Programming Recommends

    Expert C Programming - Peter van der Linden (Prentice Hall, 1994)

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  • The Mythical Man-Month Recommends

    The Mythical Man-Month - Frederick P. Brooks (Addison-Wesley, 1995/1975)

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  • The Practice of Programming Recommends

    The Practice of Programming - Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike (Addison-Wesley, 1999)

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  • The Art of Unix Programming Recommends

    The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond (Addison-Wesley, 2003)

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  • Applied Cryptography Recommends

    Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier (Wiley, 1996)

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  • Cryptonomicon Recommends

    Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

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  • The Cuckoo's Egg Recommends

    The Cuckoo's Egg - Cliff Stoll (Gallery, 2005)

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  • The Design of the Unix Operating System Recommends

    The Design of the Unix Operating System - Maurice J. Bach (Prentice Hall, 1986)

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  • Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. Recommends

    Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. - Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati Ph.D. (O'Reilly, 2005)

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  • Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. Recommends

    Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. - Robert Love (Addison-Wesley, 2010)

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  • The Practical Performance Analyst Recommends

    The Practical Performance Analyst - Neil Gunther (McGraw Hill, 1997)

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  • The Art of Capacity Planning Recommends

    The Art of Capacity Planning - John Allspaw (O'Reilly, 2008)

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  • BPF Performance Tools Recommends

    BPF Performance Tools - Brendan Gregg (Addison-Wesley, 2019)

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  • Systems Performance, 2nd edition Recommends

    Systems Performance 2nd edition - Brendan Gregg (Addison-Wesley, 2021)

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  • Huge news for Doctor Who fans: DMP 1 & 3 found! 13 Mar
  • New blog post: Why I joined OpenAI 7 Feb
  • Why I joined OpenAI 6 Feb
  • New post: Leaving Intel 5 Dec 2025
  • Leaving Intel 4 Dec 2025
  • On "AI Brendans" or "Virtual Brendans" 27 Nov 2025

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  • Intel is listening, don't waste your shot 21 Nov 2025
  • Third Stage Engineering 16 Nov 2025
  • new post: When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2 4 Aug 2025
  • When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2 3 Aug 2025
  • Had a great time at #srenext Tokyo 14 Jul 2025 Quoting@pyama86今日もいい日だった #srenext
  • Systems Performance, 2nd edition 24 May 2025 Recommendstheir own
  • BPF Performance Tools 24 May 2025 Recommendstheir own
  • The Art of Capacity Planning 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • The Practical Performance Analyst 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • The Design of the Unix Operating System 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • The Cuckoo's Egg 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Cryptonomicon 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Applied Cryptography 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • The Art of Unix Programming 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • The Practice of Programming 24 May 2025 Recommends
  • The Mythical Man-Month 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Expert C Programming 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed. 24 May 2025 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • new blog post: 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work 22 May 2025
  • 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work 21 May 2025
  • New blog post: Doom GPU Flame Graphs, a fun demo of AI/GPU Flame Graphs and FlameScope, now open source 30 Apr 2025
  • Doom GPU Flame Graphs 30 Apr 2025
  • My website is back online https://t.co/1cRpD64hyP after migrating to a different provider (and https works again) 3 Mar 2025
  • My website is online as http at https://t.co/1cRpD64hyP, but I just broke the https links, sorry. If you delete the "s" then the links should still work. 2 Mar 2025
  • AI Flame Graphs: Showing what's actually running on the HW and how we got there. Uses Intel EU stall profiling and eBPF. 30 Oct 2024
  • AI Flame Graphs 28 Oct 2024
  • FlameGraph — Stack trace visualizer 20 Oct 2024
  • WSJ covering the eBPF "super revolutionary technology" 16 Aug 2024
  • New post: No More Blue Fridays: How eBPF is already being adopted to prevent kernel crashes 22 Jul 2024
  • No More Blue Fridays 21 Jul 2024
  • bpf-perf-tools-book — Official repository for the BPF Performance Tools book 30 Apr 2024
  • New blog post: Linux crisis tools 24 Mar 2024
  • New blog post: The Return of the Frame Pointers (Fedora, Ubuntu) 17 Mar 2024
  • New blog post: eBPF Documentary 10 Mar 2024
  • perf-tools — Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace 22 Nov 2023
  • GuessingGame — Guessing game written in many programming languages 21 Sept 2023
  • BPF-tools — Performance Tools using Linux eBPF 29 Jul 2023
  • FlameScope — coming soon 16 Apr 2022
  • pmc-cloud-tools — PMC (Performance Monitoring Counter) tools for the cloud 14 Dec 2021
  • HeatMap — Heat map generation tools 6 Oct 2021
  • Chaosreader — An any-snarf program that processes application protocols (HTTP/FTP/...) from tcpdump or snoop files and stores session and file data 21 Aug 2021
  • wss — Working Set Size tools 15 Aug 2021
  • msr-cloud-tools — MSR Cloud Tools 29 Jul 2020
  • bpf-perf-workshop 5 Apr 2020
  • systemtap-lwtools — SystemTap Lightweight Tools 12 Jan 2020
  • bpf-typewriter — BPF noisy typewriter (bpftrace) 22 Dec 2019
  • Misc — Misc 19 Feb 2019