# Systems Performance, 2nd Edition
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## Metadata
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**Topic**:: [[♯ Performance]]
**Status**:: #someday
**Tags**:: #oreilly-learning #performance #tech
**Pages**:: 1830
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**Title**:: Systems Performance, 2nd Edition
**Authors**:: [[Brendan Gregg]]
**Publisher**:: [[Pearson]]
**Published**:: [[2020-12-09]]
**Updated**:: [[2022-03-27]]
**ISBN**:: 9780136821694
**Languages**:: #lang/en
**Formats**:: #format/epub, #format/pdf
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## Comments
***Systems Performance, Second Edition,*** covers concepts, strategy, tools, and tuning for operating systems and applications, using Linux-based operating systems as the primary example. A deep understanding of these tools and techniques is critical for developers today. Implementing the strategies described in this thoroughly revised and updated edition can lead to a better end-user experience and lower costs, especially for cloud computing environments that charge by the OS instance.
Systems performance expert and best-selling author Brendan Gregg summarizes relevant operating system, hardware, and application theory to quickly get professionals up to speed even if theyve never analyzed performance before. Gregg then provides in-depth explanations of the latest tools and techniques, including extended BPF, and shows how to get the most out of cloud, web, and large-scale enterprise systems. Key topics covered include
* Hardware, kernel, and application internals, and how they perform
* Methodologies for rapid performance analysis of complex systems
* Optimizing CPU, memory, file system, disk, and networking usage
* Sophisticated profiling and tracing with perf, Ftrace, and BPF (BCC and bpftrace)
* Performance challenges associated with cloud computing hypervisors
* Benchmarking more effectively
Featuring up-to-date coverage of Linux operating systems and environments, ***Systems Performance, Second Edition,*** also addresses issues that apply to any computer system. The book will be a go-to reference for many years to come and, like the first edition, required reading at leading tech companies.
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