Systems Performance (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

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Systems performance analysis and optimization can significantly improve the end-user experience, reduce costs, particularly for cloud computing environments that charge by the OS instance. In the Systems Performance, 2nd Edition book, Brendan Gregg, a world-renowned systems performance expert, has presented various systems performance analysis and tuning tools, strategies, and techniques to optimize and improve the performance of operating systems and applications using Linux-based operating systems as an example. Even if the reader has not analyzed performance before, Brendan Gregg has summarized the relevant operating system, hardware, and application theory to quickly get to the core of the concepts, and to refresh and update advanced readers’ knowledge.

Readers will be able to learn about various tools and techniques that include extended Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) for performance analysis in cloud, web, and large-scale enterprise environments. Various key topics have also been covered, which include hardware, kernel, and application internals, methodologies for rapid performance analysis of complex systems, optimization and usage of CPU, memory, file system, disk, and networking, as well as sophisticated profiling and tracing techniques with perf, Ftrace, and BPF (BCC and bpftrace). The book also includes a detailed discussion of performance challenges associated with cloud computing hypervisors, and readers will learn about effective benchmarking.

This edition of the book has been fully updated for current Linux operating systems and environments, meaning that the issues and techniques discussed in the book apply to any computer system. Recommended for readers interested in systems performance analysis and tuning, this book is an essential reference guide and highly recommended at tech companies worldwide.

From the Publisher

From the Preface

“For the past six years I have been a senior performance engineer at Netflix, applying the field of systems performance to the Netflix microservices environment. I’ve worked on the performance of hypervisors, containers, runtimes, kernels, databases, and applications. I’ve developed new methodologies and tools as needed, and worked with experts in cloud performance and Linux kernel engineering. These experiences have contributed to improving this edition.”

— Brendan Gregg, December 2020

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 2nd edition (December 16, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 928 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0136820158
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0136820154
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.11 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.9 x 9.1 inches