Tag: Book

  • Mastering Python Networking Review

    I came across Mastering Python Networking by Eric Chou about a month ago on Twitter and immediately purchased it. I was excited to see book on programming targeted at people with a networking background as being able to automate becomes critical to scaling networks and reducing toil. To say I’m a fan of this book…

  • Practical OpenTelemetry Review

    OpenTelemetry is something I’ve been watching for a while now and reviewing Practical OpenTelemetry was the perfect excuse to dive deeper. In my lab I’ve been running a project called SigNoz for which I’m writing up a companion article to this one to show some practical examples. When I first looked into OpenTelemetry about 4…

  • Learning eBPF Review

    What makes Learning eBPF different to BPF Performance tools (which I wrote about recently) is that it moves beyond theObservability and performance lens towards Security and modification behaviour inside the Linux kernel. The author Liz Rice is the Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent and recently presented at the eBPF Virtual Summit in September of…

  • BPF Performance Tools Review

    BPF Performance Tools Review

    BPF Performance Tools the kind of book an observability specialist picks up and thinks this will make a good reference book for my library, and then reads the whole thing cover to cover. Brendan Gregg formerly of NetFlix has contributed significantly to the world of observability and uses his experience in troubleshooting and tracing some…