Cutting through the layers: anatomy of a Linux system

Ever had to patch a critical CVE on your production systems, only to wonder what the affected component even does? Even the barest Linux system is actually composed of a plethora of independant projects, of which most users have little to no awareness... until something breaks. In this talk, I'll guide you through a quick tour of a typical Ubuntu system, before diving into concrete examples of how these various codebases interact with each other.