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Monday, July 11 • 11:00 - 17:00
Staring into the eBPF Abyss LIMITED

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eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filters) is a modern kernel technology that can be used to introduce dynamic tracing into a system that wasn't prepared or instrumented in any way. The tracing programs run in the kernel, are guaranteed to never crash or hang your system, and can probe every module and function -- from the kernel to user-space frameworks such as Node and Ruby.

In this workshop, you will experiment with Linux dynamic tracing first-hand. First, you will explore BCC, the BPF Compiler Collection, which is a set of tools and libraries for dynamic tracing. Many of your tracing needs will be answered by BCC, and you will experiment with memory leak analysis, generic function tracing, kernel tracepoints, static tracepoints in user-space programs, and the "baked" tools for file I/O, network, and CPU analysis. You'll be able to choose between working on a set of hands-on labs prepared by the instructors, or trying the tools out on your own test system.

Next, you will hack on some of the bleeding edge tools in the BCC toolkit, and build a couple of simple tools of your own. You'll be able to pick from a curated list of GitHub issues for the BCC project, a set of hands-on labs with known "school solutions", and an open-ended list of problems that need tools for effective analysis. At the end of this workshop, you will be equipped with a toolbox for diagnosing issues in the field, as well as a framework for building your own tools when the generic ones do not suffice.


Speakers
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Sasha Goldshtein

CTO, Sela Group
Sasha Goldshtein is the CTO of Sela Group, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, Pluralsight and O’Reilly author, and international consultant and trainer. Sasha is the author of two books and multiple online courses, and a prolific blogger. He is also an active open source contributor... Read More →


Monday July 11, 2016 11:00 - 17:00 IST
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