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. 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

"Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16342665

"CPU Utilization is Wrong" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301739

"Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959288