How Can This Book Help You?

You will learn many things from this book, including the following:

• What the various performance tools measure

• How to use each tool

• How to combine the tools to solve a performance problem

• How to start with a poorly performing system and pinpoint the problem

• How the methods are used to solve real-world problems (case studies)

Using the methods in this book, you can make a well-organized and diagnosed problem description that you can pass on to the original developers. If you're lucky, they will solve the problem for you.