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Linux

Linux is technically a Kernel, but “knowing linux” involves far more.

Some books about the internals of Linux:

Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love
The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk

Files

Files are fraught with peril

Linux Networking

Setup tc_cake in NixOS

Observability and Performance

Tools

htop - Easy to use alternative to top for monitoring cpu and memory load
iostat - Easily view I/O load by process. Good for monitoring restores or seeing if an application is I/O bound.
- In ubuntu part of the sysstat package

Books

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud by Brendan Gregg
- “2nd Ed will be released Dec 9, 2020”
BPF Performance Tools by Brendan Gregg