Ebook: Foundations of software and system performance engineering: process, performance modeling, requirements, testing, scalability, and practice

Why performance engineering? Why performance engineers? -- Performance metrics -- Basic performance analysis -- Workload identification and characterization -- From workloads to business aspects of performance requirements -- Qualitative and quantitative types of performance requirements -- Eliciting, writing, and managing performance requirements -- System measurement techniques and instrumentation -- Performance testing -- System understanding, model choice, and validation -- Scalability and performance -- Performance engineering pitfalls -- Agile processes and performance engineering -- Working with stakeholders to learn, influence, and tell the -- Performance engineering story -- Where to learn more.