Books

Books are the ocean of wisdom. To continue this thought I have listed out some best books related to performance testing, performance engineering and trending PT tools. You can either buy the book of your interest or read them using e-book option (Read for Free option is available for some books). 

General Performance Testing Books:

1. Testing the Performance of Complex System Simulations Paperback (By Gregor Drr)

2. Application Performance Testing: A Universal Performance Testing Methodology (By Bernhard Klemm)

3. The Art of Application Performance Testing 2e (By Ian Molyneaux)

4. Performance testing - a practical guide (By Albert Witteveen)

5. Software Performance Testing a Complete Guide (By Gerardus Blokdyk)

6. Performance Testing Interview Questions & Answers: Most Frequently Asked Questions (By R Arora)

7. Winning The Software Quality Assurance Job Interview (By Kuebiko Global)

8. .NET Performance Testing and Optimization - the Complete Guide (By Paul Glavich, Chris Farrell) 

Performance Engineering Books:

1. Performance Modeling and Engineering

2. Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering: Process, Performance Modeling, Requirements, Testing, Scalability, and Practice 1st Edition (By André B. Bondi)

3. Software Engineering for Real-time Systems Volume 3: Implementation and Performance Issues (The engineering of real-time embedded systems) (By Jim Cooling)

4. System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (By Mike Loukides)

5. Excellence in Performance Testing and Engineering Handy Book (By Surya Kosuri)

LoadRunner Books:

1. HP LoadRunner - Standard Requirements (By Gerardus Blokdyk)

2. HP LoadRunner Second Edition (Gerardus Blokdyk)

3. The Complete Guide on HP LoadRunner Web Controller (By NaveenKumar Namachivayam)

4. Performance Testing LoadRunner Online Interview and Methodology Expert Video Learning Success Kit 

Apache JMeter Books:

1. Performance Testing with JMeter 3 - Third Edition (By Bayo Erinle)

2. JMeter Cookbook (By Bayo Erinle)

3. Pro Apache JMeter: Web Application Performance Testing (By Sai Matam, Jagdeep Jain)

4. Apache JMeter (By Emily H. Halili)

5. Learn Jmeter in 1 Day: Definitive Guide to Learn Jmeter for Beginners (By Krishna Rungta)

6. Apache JMeter a Complete Guide (By Gerardus Blokdyk)

7. Master Apache JMeter (Written by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues, Philippe Mouawad, and Milamber (Apache JMeter developer team member), Prefaced by Alexander Podelko) 

Performance Monitoring Tool Books:

1. Dynatrace Performance Monitoring Tool and Real time performance issues (By Surya Kosuri)

2. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Standard Requirements (By Gerardus Blokdyk)

3. Application Performance Monitoring Complete Self-Assessment Guide (By Gerardus Blokdyk)

4. Network Performance Monitoring Solution Complete Self-Assessment Guide (By Gerardus Blokdyk)

Related Books:

1. Hands-On Microservices – Monitoring and Testing: A performance engineer’s guide to the continuous testing and monitoring of microservices 1st Edition (By Dinesh Rajput)

2. The Oracle 11g Performance Tuning First Edition (By Rajeev A Parida)

3. Web Performance Tuning: Speeding up the Web 2nd Edition (By Patrick Killelea)