Now that the email book club around Database Internals is coming to a close, it's time for a new one!
We're going to cover Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition by Brendan Gregg.
Yes, the 2nd Edition. The 1st Edition has fewer chapters, has more focus on Solaris, had fewer technical reviewers, etc. Brendan describes the differences in the link above.
We'll read one chapter a week and discuss over a Google Group. You do not need a Google account to join the Google Group. Your email will be public if you post but otherwise it will not be visible to anyone.
There'll be no Zoom or Google Hangout, it will purely be over text email.
Each week, one person will send out an email on Saturday recapping the chapter to start discussion. It can be as short as a paragraph or two just to get discussion going. Anyone else can chime in afterward. If no one volunteers to lead a chapter, I'll get the discussion going each time.
Don't worry about being an expert and don't worry about what to say, I'll go first and will prod you when it's your turn.
Over 500 people signed up. Signups are now closed! If you didn't make it this time, there'll likely be a future one when this one ends.
Each week one member of the group kicks off discussion for the previous chapter. I.e. on Feb 10th I'll start a discussion on Chapter 1. So you should read the chapter before the date it is listed.
Here are the folks starting discussion each week.
| Date | Leader | Chapter | Title |
| Feb 10th | Phil | 1 | Introduction |
| Feb 17th | Rohit Kulshreshtha | 2 | Methodologies |
| Feb 24th | Can Toraman | 3 | Operating Systems |
| Mar 2nd | Tobi Okewole | 4 | Observability Tools |
| Mar 9th | Bob Uva | 5 | Applications |
| Mar 16th | Sarthak Makhija | 6 | CPUs |
| Mar 23rd | Tamir Hemo | 7 | Memory |
| Mar 30th | Ayomide Oyekanmi | 8 | File Systems |
| Apr 6th | Ashish Paliwal | 9 | Disks |
| Apr 13th | Aanand N | 10 | Network |
| Apr 20th | Jonathan Grahl | 11 | Cloud Computing |
| Apr 27th | Luis Chavez | 12 | Benchmarking |
| May 4th | Kemal Akkoyun | 13 | perf |
| May 11th | Prasoon Sinha | 14 | Ftrace |
| May 18th | Vegard Stikbakke | 15 | BPF |
| May 25th | Bhargav Voleti | 16 | Case Study |