Book Review: Shift

Book Review: Shift

The second book in Hugh Howey’s Silo trilogy, Shift is an immersive and claustrophobic environment. As a Georgia native, I especially enjoyed that this series is set in rural outskirts of Atlanta. The skyline lays in ruins off in the distance, over the rolling hills of North Georgia. The timeline alternates between the past, before a catastrophic event forced a […]

Book Review: Systems Performance, Brendan Gregg

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 […]