2009/12/08

Couple of books I found today

I had some free time in downtown Helsinki today so I swung by the Stockmann bookstore and was checking out the Technology books section and while there came across a couple of surpriseing books.

The first was Complete Web Monitoring. This book is a written summary of what I have been learning about over the past couple of years. The first part is some simple basic theory about why you should monitor, but the middle to sections where what I have been working on for the last couple of years (the Web analytics not so much but the Web Perfromance and End User Experience was an almost exact match).
The last section on communities is something I have been taking part in as a memember of various communities for the past few years, and again did seem to be just a collection of various writings from around the web.

THe second surprise was to find a friend and former collegue's book on the shelves, The Art of Application Performance Testing.
I had a look and it seemed like a very good summary of all the lessons learnt over the last 10 years of Performance testing.