Recommendations you can check.
by Neil Gunther, 1997
Who uses, recommends or left The Practical Performance Analyst, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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The Practical Performance Analyst - Neil Gunther (McGraw Hill, 1997)
His Books page, which he introduces as a list of textbook recommendations — explicitly not everything he owns, only what he would recommend. Last updated 24-May-2025. The Amazon links on the page carry an affiliate tag.
2025-05-24·brendangregg.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.