The Linux Black Bag

Recently I’ve been exploring different flavors of linux, some exceptionally small, some that just run entirely in memory, some that come only with the core packages. By far my favorite is puppy linux, with tiny-core in second. On that journey it prompted me to explore some of my favorite technical documentation about systems engineering and observability by Brendan Gregg. This article is about the tools I installed after revisiting BPF and Systems Performance books. When your system is experie...