How to Make Things Faster

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Cary Millsap(Author)

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Published on 9. June 2023

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Intro
Copyright
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Conventions Used in This Book
O'Reilly Online Learning
How to Contact Us
Part I. Look at It
Chapter 1. Bob
Chapter 2. Phyllis
Chapter 3. The Real Goal
Chapter 4. Nancy
Chapter 5. Looking at the Right It
Chapter 6. When You Can't Look at It
Part II. Method
Chapter 7. Forty-Nine Grievances
Chapter 8. The Shipping Labels Problem
Chapter 9. More Grievances
Chapter 10. Priority
Chapter 11. But My Whole System Is Slow
Chapter 12. Collateral Benefit
Chapter 13. The Silver Bullet
Chapter 14. The List
Chapter 15. Method R
Part III. Profiling
Chapter 16. Payroll
Chapter 17. The Sequence Diagram
Chapter 18. The Gantt Chart
Chapter 19. Tracing
Chapter 20. The Profile
Chapter 21. Creating a Profile
Part IV. Measuring Performance
Chapter 22. Performance Is a Feature
Chapter 23. The Reproducible Test Case
Chapter 24. Intermittent Problems
Chapter 25. How Much to Trace
Chapter 26. Identifying Experiences
Chapter 27. Measurement Intrusion
Part V. Optimizing
Chapter 28. A Riddle
Chapter 29. A Game
Chapter 30. Event Count
Chapter 31. Event Duration
Chapter 32. Filter Early
Chapter 33. Look Left
Chapter 34. Tow-Millsap Law
Chapter 35. The Bottleneck
Chapter 36. Beware the "System Bottleneck"
Chapter 37. The Problem with Optimizing Subsystems
Chapter 38. Every Problem Is a Skew Problem
Chapter 39. Critical Path
Part VI. Delays
Chapter 40. Kevin
Chapter 41. Queueing Delay
Chapter 42. Queueing Theory
Chapter 43. The Hyperbola
Chapter 44. Traffic Intensity
Chapter 45. Utilization
Chapter 46. Hyperbolic Leverage
Chapter 47. Coherency Delay
Chapter 48. Delays and Throughput
Part VII. Waste
Chapter 49. Debra
Chapter 50. The Ramp
Chapter 51. Martha
Chapter 52. Efficiency
Chapter 53. Fix It, or Feed It?
Chapter 54. Yeti
Chapter 55. Fast vs. Efficient
Chapter 56. Scalability
Part VIII. Problem Solving
Chapter 57. Four Simple Questions
Chapter 58. Reaching the End of Your Data
Chapter 59. Your C-Level Feedback Loop
Chapter 60. Collateral Damage
Chapter 61. Too Much of a Good Thing
Chapter 62. Doug
Chapter 63. When Are You Done?
Part IX. Predicting
Chapter 64. Richard
Chapter 65. Why Predict?
Chapter 66. Predicting with Profiles
Chapter 67. Go/No-Go Predictions
Chapter 68. Linear Behavior
Chapter 69. Skew
Chapter 70. Event Interdependencies
Chapter 71. Nonlinear Behavior
Part X. Latency Hiding
Chapter 72. Mom
Chapter 73. Dominic
Chapter 74. Parallelization
Chapter 75. How to Melt a System
Chapter 76. Multitasking
Chapter 77. Human Multitasking
Part XI. Fallacies
Chapter 78. The Evil Genie
Chapter 79. The Leather Jacket
Chapter 80. The Buried Outlier
Chapter 81. Be Careful What You Wish For
Chapter 82. Percentile Specifications
Chapter 83. The Hit Rate Problem
Chapter 84. The MPG Problem
Chapter 85. The Ratio Trick
Chapter 86. Even Throughput and Response Time?
Chapter 87. Are Ratios Useless?
Chapter 88. When Ratios Are Reliable
Chapter 89. Describing Performance Improvements
Chapter 90. The "n Times Faster" Myth
Part XII. Testing
Chapter 91. Why Test?
Chapter 92. Risk
Chapter 93. Destructive Testing
Chapter 94. Testing Is Not a Phase
Chapter 95. Automated Testing
Chapter 96. Preventing Problems
Part XIII. Planning
Chapter 97. Mrs. Utley
Chapter 98. Capacity Planning
Chapter 99. Utilization Targets
Chapter 100. When to Upgrade
Part XIV. Politics
Chapter 101. Proving
Chapter 102. The Problem with Underpromising
Chapter 103. Seven Project Risk Magnifiers
Chapter 104. Fail Fast
Chapter 105. Face
Chapter 106. The Jeweler's Method
Chapter 107. Change Control
Chapter 108. Record Keeping
Chapter 109. Failure
Chapter 110. Don't Worry, Be Nervous
Part XV. Just for Fun
Chapter 111. Optimizing for Kids
Glossary
References
Index
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