Latency

Pekka Enberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2025
Manning Publications (Verlag)
978-1-63343-808-8 (ISBN)

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Slow responses can kill good software. Whether it’s recovering microseconds lost while routing messages on a server or speeding up page loads that keep users waiting, finding and fixing latency can be a frustrating part of your work as a developer. This one-of-a-kind book shows you how to spot, understand, and respond to latency wherever it appears in your applications and infrastructure.

Slow screens sink careers. Why is your code still crawling? Hidden queues, chatty APIs, mis-placed data, every microsecond adds up. Latency steals user trust before logs even load. Stop guessing, start measuring, model every millisecond that matters. Feel the thrill of instant responses across servers and clients. Own the speed conversation at your next review.

Latency foundations clarified: Spot myths, define true delay, plan realistic performance targets.

Benchmark harness in Rust: Capture, visualize, and compare microsecond-level metrics with confidence.

Data colocation and partitioning: Restructure storage to cut round-trips and boost throughput.

Caching and hiding latency: Keep users happy even when reduction is impossible.

Cross-stack insights: Operating systems, databases, networks, all decoded for everyday engineers.

Latency: Reduce Delay in Software Systems by seasoned engineer Pekka Enberg combines deep systems insight with Rust-driven examples to create an authoritative, developer-friendly playbook for low-latency software.

Step-by-step projects move from modeling delay to shaving microseconds in real APIs. Each chapter blends theory, code walkthroughs, and war-story wisdom that sticks. Expect diagrams, benchmarks, and checklists you can reuse tomorrow.

Finish the book ready to diagnose any slowdown, choose the right fix, and defend your decisions with clear metrics. Your software and reputation will run faster.

Ideal for backend and distributed-systems developers comfortable with Rust or similar languages, and performance-minded team leads.

Pekka Enberg is a system engineer and former Linux-kernel maintainer known for eliminating microsecond bottlenecks. With experience across operating systems, databases, and large-scale distributed stacks, Pekka brings pragmatic clarity to every page. He distills deep performance expertise into actionable guidance that helps developers build faster software today.

PART 1: BASICS

1 INTRODUCTION

2 MODELING AND MEASURING LATENCY

PART 2: DATA

3 COLOCATION

4 REPLICATION

5 PARTITIONING

6 CACHING

PART 3: COMPUTE

7 ELIMINATING WORK

8 WAIT-FREE SYNCHRONIZATION

9 EXPLOITING CONCURRENCY

PART 4: HIDING LATENCY

10 ASYNCHRONOUS PROCESSING

11 PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES

APPENDIX

APPENDIX A: A. FURTHER READING

Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 234 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
ISBN-10	1-63343-808-2 / 1633438082
ISBN-13	978-1-63343-808-8 / 9781633438088
Zustand	Neuware