Performance Engineering at Scale : Designing Systems That Survive Reality, Not Just Traffic
Overview
Most systems don't fail when they break.
They fail when they slow down.
Performance Engineering at Scale is not a textbook. It's a field guide forged from real-world outages, cascading failures, and high-stakes production systems.
This book goes beyond tuning and testing to expose the uncomfortable truth:
performance is not a metric-it's behavior under pressure.
Inside, you'll learn:
- Why average latency lies-and tail latency destroys systems
- How microservices, retries, and failover can trigger collapse
- Why most load tests pass... and production still fails
- How data, not code, becomes your biggest bottleneck
- Why throwing infrastructure at problems increases cost and risk
- How to design systems that survive real-world chaos-not ideal conditions
Written for enterprise architects, SRE leaders, and senior engineers, this book delivers hard-earned insights, architectural trade-offs, and decision-making frameworks you won't find in documentation.
If you are responsible for systems that cannot fail-but inevitably will,
this book will change how you design, scale, and think.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798254830009
- ISBN-10: 9798254830009
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: April 2026
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 210
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