Software Performance Risk Management: Engineering Survival in a World Built on Fragile Software - Hardcover

Pulley, James L

 
9781964222165: Software Performance Risk Management: Engineering Survival in a World Built on Fragile Software

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Most software failures are not caused by code defects. They are caused by risks no one measured. Software Performance Risk Management: Engineering Survival in a World Built on Fragile Software introduces a new approach to governing the survivability of modern software systems. As digital infrastructure becomes more complex and more critical to business operations, performance failures no longer represent technical inconveniences-they represent operational and financial risk. For decades, performance engineering has focused on speed, scalability, and capacity. These practices made systems faster, but not necessarily safer. Outages continue to grow larger, recovery becomes more difficult, and hidden dependencies create failure paths that traditional testing and monitoring cannot reveal. This book defines Software Performance Risk Management (SPRM), a discipline focused on identifying and governing the structural risks that threaten software-dependent organizations. Instead of treating performance as a late-stage testing activity, SPRM treats performance as a continuous risk surface that exists across the entire lifecycle of a system-from architecture through production operations. SPRM_optimized Readers will learn why widely adopted practices such as performance testing, observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering remain essential yet incomplete. The book introduces practical concepts including blast radius analysis, dependency mapping, passive risk intelligence, and governance models that allow organizations to understand how failures propagate and how they can be contained before they occur. Through real-world examples and practical frameworks, this book shows how organizations can move beyond dashboards and reactive tuning toward proactive survivability governance. The goal is not simply to improve performance, but to reduce fragility and prevent large-scale failure. Written for performance engineers, architects, technology leaders, and executives responsible for digital continuity, this book provides a structured framework for managing performance risk as a business responsibility rather than a technical afterthought. SPRM_optimized If your organization depends on software to operate, performance is not just an engineering concern-it is a matter of survival. This book is not about tuning code or selecting tools. It is about understanding where software systems are exposed-and how to govern them before failure becomes inevitable.

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James L. Pulley III is a software performance engineer, author, and systems thinker with more than three decades of experience working with large-scale software systems. His work focuses on the intersection of measurement, system reliability, and operational risk, emphasizing the structural properties required for software systems that must be trusted.Pulley has worked with enterprise and regulated environments where system behavior must be measurable, auditable, and defensible under real-world conditions. He is known for reframing performance engineering as a discipline of measurement and governance rather than testing alone.He is the founder of Journeyman Publishing and co-host of the PerfBytes podcast, where he discusses performance engineering and system reliability with practitioners and researchers across the industry.

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ISBN 10:  1964222567 ISBN 13:  9781964222561
Verlag: Journeyman Publishing LLC, 2026
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