30 Days of Performance Testing Day 1: What Performance Testing Book do you recommend?

The first challenge on the 30 Days Performance Testing Challenge is to choose a book to read.

Does anyone have any recommendations? Or care to share what you plan to read for the challenge?

This recent Performance Testing Guide article listed a few books.

  • “High Performance Web Sites” by Steve Souders
  • “Every Computer Performance Book” by Bob Wescott
  • “Web Application Performance Testing” by Meier, Barber, Banshode, Farre and Rae
  • “Fundamentals of Performance Engineering” by Keith Smith and Bob Wescott
  • “The Practical Performance Analyst” by Neil J. Gunther - Read Chapter 1
  • “Effective Performance Engineering” by Todd DeCapua and Shane evans
  • “The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis” by Raj Jain
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This one was kinda quick and entertaining.

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I’ve gone for “Web Application Performance Testing” by Meier, Barber, Banshode, Farre and Rae. It’s free to download from Microsoft: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924375.aspx

It gets pretty good reviews, so I’m looking forward to starting it.

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I have gone for The Art of Application Performance Testing: From Strategy to Tools by Ian Molyneaux

Molyneaux, Ian. The Art of Application Performance Testing: From Strategy to Tools
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Application-Performance-Testing-Strategy-ebook/dp/B00QXWIWIG/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=