Book Review: Systems Performance, Brendan Gregg

If you are working with Linux servers of any shape or size, this is a must have book. Brendan Gregg’s Systems Performance is crammed full of valuable checklists, strategies and tools to help you debug, measure, and eliminate performance bottlenecks. The chapter on analysis and measuring methodology is worth the price alone. I used this book as a guide to plan and execute a major performance improvement project in my last job. I even got several members of our QA and SRE teams to pick up a copy and begin applying the concepts to new test plans.