Systems Performance (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

Simply the most use performance engineering book that I own. I already had the first edition and had to buy this second edition. Its full of practical, real world advice for tuning modern Linux systems. It's readable, comprehensive and authoratitive.

I am a software engineer who does systems performance analysis as part of my job. This book let me grow my knowledge, it did expand my horizons in many areas, especially BPF. Thanks!P.S. This certainly is not a book NOT for absolute beginners.

Deep understanding, great book

Well, this is an amazing book! I strongly recommend it to all IT professionals involved in application development, SRE, sysadmin work, and system performance—and even beyond! 10/10!

Few technical books really provide sufficient coverage of the subject material - but Brendan Gregg's 2nd Edition of Systems Performance, Enterprise and the Cloud - is a masterpiece.Within this tome are the techniques that will teach you deep knowledge.When you have synthesized the wisdom within these pages - you will have achieved a level of mastery that will distinguish you for the rest of your career.This book should be on the shelf of every developer, tester, engineer, architect.

It's fairly easy to pick up on the basics of analyzing system performance, and is one of the skills systems administrators learn early on. You shouldn't confuse that level of knowledge with the one you will have after reading through and learning from this book.Brendan's work in the first, and now greatly expanded and updated, second edition is the gold standard when it comes to moving beyond that novice understanding, and will take you well past an intermediate level knowledge into an advanced practitioner. I make daily use of the things I've learned from both editions.If you have the first edition, the new and refined content here is well worth it (and pick up his BPF book as well if you haven't already!). If you don't own the first edition, it doesn't matter if you're a systems administrator, software developer, devops engineer, or performance engineer with many years of experience - there will be things in here that you did not know and can learn from.

I have started working with ebpf and performance related to Kubernetes clusters. The way the chapters flow is like a Jedi Master defining methodologies to cloud computing. The depth and definitions influence my daily work. The is the book along with EPBF Performance that are on my desk, and I consult them on a daily basis.

This book has been amazing. I have not read it all the way to the end just quite yet, there's a lot of information to unpack. There is quite a bit of repetition in there which I actually find nice because it refreshes the context but also great as a reference.This has helped me understand quite a bit more about raw performance tuning and how to approach it smartly. I think the methodology was a big help. The tools have also been helpful as its helped me fill in a lot of my blind spots in technology. Again, this is a great book.I'm a general software engineer and this has helped me gain insight into places I don't always get to work directly in. If you're trying to better understand systems in general, I think this is a great book for that too.