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New account, just to ask this.

I understand how much effort is involved in writing / publishing.

Are you planning a Second edition of your "Systems Performance, Enterprise and the Cloud" text, especially in light of the pace of development in the Linux performance / profiling space?

Thank you for all your countless contributions.

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Yes, I'll be writing more books, more details later; as for a 2nd edition, well, the 1st edition is probably more useful in the meantime than you might think. Lets say you install bcc/BPF tomorrow. Ok, now what? The hardest part is to know what to do with these superpowers. Apart from the provided scripts in bcc, the sysperf book has other DTrace examples that you might need, and can then port over. The hardest part of DTrace was knowing what to do with it, so all the prior DTrace documentation will be good material to browse and be inspired from, including my DTrace book. Many of my bcc/tools originated as versions I wrote using DTrace.

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