The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis
- title
- The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis
- type
- book
- summary
- Jain's 1991 textbook on experimental design, queueing models and statistics for benchmarking
- author
- Raj Jain
- year
- 1991
- tags
- performance, statistics, benchmarking
- status
- want-to-read
- sources
- eatonphil-bookclub
- created
- 2026-05-12
- updated
- 2026-05-12
Jain's Wiley (1991) textbook on doing performance work seriously: experimental design, measurement, queueing models, simulation, statistical analysis of results. Pre-Linux but the methodology survives — Brendan Gregg cites it as the source of the rigor missing from most benchmark posts. On the eatonphil-bookclub speculative future list (publisher URL not confirmed — the source page listing appeared duplicated).
Related: systems-performance, understanding-software-dynamics.
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