How to educate yourself to be a Java Performance Engineer

Here is some articles that I found interesting and relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_performance_testing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_testing_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing
 
http://www.slideshare.net/guru__123/loadrunner-presentation-5204243

http://www.correlsense.com/java-bytecode-instrumentation-an-introduction/
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/instrument/Instrumentation.html
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/instrument/package-summary.html

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/index.html
http://www.artima.com/insidejvm/ed2/jvm2.html
http://blog.jamesdbloom.com/JVMInternals.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_class_file

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gctuning/

http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/java/gc01/index.html