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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. That’s right – NY WebPerf is 10 years old! Check out the story behind this wonderful book.) Doug Sillars.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I wrote an ftrace toolkit, [perf-tools], and the article [Ftrace: the hidden light switch]. - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. It's fast, but limited in places, and usually only suited as a single-user tool (there are workarounds).