SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING: Profiling, Optimization, Concurrency, Memory Management, Benchmarking, and High-Performance Applications - Softcover

Shell, Alfredo J.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798176082494

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING provides a structured exploration of the principles and techniques used to analyze, optimize, and improve the performance of modern software applications. It examines profiling, optimization, concurrency, memory management, benchmarking, resource utilization, and high-performance application design.

Software performance depends on how efficiently an application uses processor time, memory, storage, networks, and other computing resources. Understanding performance therefore requires more than improving individual lines of code. It involves measuring system behavior, identifying bottlenecks, analyzing workloads, and applying appropriate optimization techniques.

The book introduces fundamental performance engineering concepts and examines how profiling and benchmarking can be used to understand application behavior. It explores execution time, memory usage, CPU utilization, I/O activity, latency, throughput, resource consumption, and performance measurement.

Particular attention is given to concurrency and resource management. Modern applications often perform multiple operations simultaneously, making thread coordination, synchronization, parallel execution, memory management, and resource allocation important considerations in performance engineering.

Key topics include:

• Fundamentals of software performance engineering

• Performance measurement and analysis

• Application profiling

• CPU and memory profiling

• Performance bottleneck identification

• Code and application optimization

• Memory management

• Concurrency and parallel execution

• Thread and process management

• Synchronization and resource coordination

• Benchmarking and workload analysis

• Latency and throughput

• I/O and storage performance

• Resource utilization

• Performance testing

• High-performance application design

The book also examines how performance improvements can affect scalability, responsiveness, resource efficiency, and application reliability. It considers the importance of measuring performance before and after optimization rather than relying solely on assumptions about system behavior.

SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING is designed for software engineering students, programmers, application developers, systems engineers, performance engineers, IT professionals, and readers seeking a technical foundation in software performance analysis and optimization.

Build a stronger understanding of how software performance is measured, analyzed, and improved. Explore profiling, optimization, concurrency, memory management, benchmarking, resource utilization, and high-performance application engineering.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798176082494
• Einband: Copertina flessibile
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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