| This is a 30min talk that I keep coming back to: Python, Linkers, and Virtual Memory by Brandon Rhodes (Python core dev) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQKAoq2OPE (Most of the content is not actually specific to Python) He beautifully pulls back the curtain on so many lower level concepts like virtual memory management, dynamic linking, heap/stack, fork(), copy-on-write. The talk is broad in nature, not deep. It takes you just below the surface of many magic black boxes, and, as you put it, enhances your proximity with those topics. For me, so many things clicked in this single talk: - How virtual memory works (incl. paging in/out, swapping) - Why there's those discrepancies between RSS / PSS - What segfaults and page faults are - What actually happens when I get errors related to dynamically linked libraries, either at build time or runtime - Actually understanding the output of top / ps |