How to Make Things Faster: Lessons in Performance from Technology and Everyday Life

by Cary Millsap

Overview

Slow systems are frustrating. They waste time and money. But making consistently great decisions about performance can be easy, if you understand what's going on. This book explains in a clear and thoughtful voice why systems perform the way they do. It's for anybody who's curious about how computer programs and other processes use their time and about what you can do to improve them.

Through a mix of personal vignettes and technical use cases, Cary Millsap reviews the process of improving performance and provides best practices for optimizing systems efficiently. You'll learn how to identify the information needed to improve a system, how to find the root causes of performance issues, and how to fix them. You'll also learn how performance optimization is both a skill set and a mindset, and how to develop both over time.

If you're a computer professional whose success relies on software that goes fast, by the end of this book you'll be able to identify, view, scope, analyze, and remedy performance issues with consistency and confidence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781098147068
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/25/2023
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cary Millsap spent the 1990s learning a lifetime's worth of technical and political lessons as a consultant for Oracle Corporation. By 1999, he had amassed an impressive personal track record with about a hundred different customers, while building and training a team of 85 elite performance specialists that Oracle deployed to help hundreds more customers worldwide. In 2004, he wrote Optimizing Oracle Performance, for which he and researcher Jeff Holt were named Oracle Magazine's 2004 Authors of the Year. In 2008, he founded Method R Corporation, which served ultra-high-profile customers and created the world's first software system for managing, mining, and manipulating thousands of Oracle trace files. Over his career, Cary has educated thousands of information technology professionals through his commitment to writing, teaching, and speaking at public events.