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

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.

慢速系統令人沮喪。它們浪費時間和金錢。但是，如果你了解系統運行的原理，做出持續優秀的性能決策就會變得容易。本書以清晰而深思熟慮的語言解釋了系統性能的原因。它適用於對計算機程序和其他過程如何使用時間以及如何改進它們感到好奇的任何人。通過個人故事和技術用例的結合，Cary Millsap回顧了提高性能的過程，並提供了優化系統的最佳實踐。你將學習如何識別改進系統所需的信息，如何找到性能問題的根本原因，以及如何修復它們。你還將了解性能優化既是一種技能，也是一種心態，以及如何隨著時間的推移發展這兩者。如果你是一位依賴軟件快速運行而取得成功的計算機專業人士，通過閱讀本書，你將能夠有系統且自信地識別、查看、範圍、分析和解決性能問題。