Appendix E
Systems Performance Who’s Who
It can be useful to know who created the technologies that we use. This is a list of who’s who in the field of systems performance, based on the technologies in this book. This was inspired by the Unix who’s who list in [Libes 89]. Apologies to those who are missing or misappropriated. If you wish to dig further into the people and history, see the chapter references and the names listed in the Linux source, both the Linux repository history and the MAINTAINERS file in the Linux source code. The Acknowledgments section of my BPF book [Gregg 19] also lists various technologies, in particular extended BPF, BCC, bpftrace, kprobes, and uprobes, and the people behind them.
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