I'd suggest the posts / talks from Brendan Gregg, a performance expert at Netflix, that have featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brendangregg

I'd suggest the posts / talks from Brendan Gregg, a performance expert at Netflix, that have featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brendangregg.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brendangregg.com. Most students will likely find themselves employed working on web / cloud systems and should find the sort of topics he covers to be valuable. Some particularly interesting ones were: "The Speed of Time" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28662945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28662945 "Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16342665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16342665 "CPU Utilization is Wrong" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301739 "Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959288