Performance Wins with BPF: Getting Started

BPF (eBPF) tracing is the superpower that can analyze everything, helping you find performance wins, troubleshoot software, and more. But with many different front-ends and languages, and years of evolution, finding the right starting point can be hard. This talk will make it easy, showing how to install and run selected BPF tools in the bcc and bpftrace open source projects for some quick wins. Think like a sysadmin, not like a programmer.