While Brendan was writing his new book Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, we filmed some short videos about why he wanted to write a systems performance book, how hard it was to get started, and about a few chapters as he completed them… Disks chapter File Systems chapter Methodologies & OS chapters Then life… Continue reading Systems Performance Book Videos
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Look What We Got!
The first copies came in of Brendan Gregg’s new book, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud. ps You can order the book from InformIT or Amazon. You might also like: No related posts.
The Perf Book: Getting Started is the Hardest Part
Brendan’s frustrations getting the Systems Performance book started. Spoiler: the book did eventually get started, and finished. You can order the book from InformIT or Amazon. You might also like: No related posts.
Why a Systems Performance Book?
Using videos to promote books has become standard practice in the last few years, as Brendan Gregg and I were well aware while he was writing his latest. We’ve made many videos together, so we figured it would be easy to film a series of brief videos, say one per chapter, during the writing of… Continue reading Why a Systems Performance Book?
Marketing Your Tech Talent
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to present this talk at the Monktoberfest in Portland, Maine. Slide deck with notes – Marketing Your Tech Talent Some very kind words about the talk from Joe Brockmeier here. I’m just gonna brag a little here: Videoing the talks at #monktoberfest pic.twitter.com/p6XnDGDL2O — Tom Raftery (@TomRaftery) October… Continue reading Marketing Your Tech Talent