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# 867g premium hardcover cloud & performance focus deep systems insights Addison Wesley Understanding Software Dynamics

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## Summary

> 📘 Decode software’s hidden dynamics — because true mastery is beneath the surface.

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## Key Features

- • **Engaging & Practical:** Well-structured chapters that feed curiosity and sharpen your architectural decisions.
- • **Curated by a Systems Guru:** Insights from decades of experience, including kernel and user-space tool expertise.
- • **Essential Reference Manual:** Keep it on your desk for quick, reliable guidance on complex software trade-offs.
- • **Master the Invisible Layers:** Unlock the secrets beneath your code with expert-level system dynamics.
- • **Real-World Cloud Performance:** Navigate contention, queues, and locks like a pro in modern distributed systems.

## Overview

Addison Wesley's 'Understanding Software Dynamics' by Richard Sites is a 867-gram hardcover essential for software architects and developers aiming to deepen their grasp of system performance and behavior. With a strong focus on real-world cloud environments, contention, and resource management, this book distills decades of expert experience into practical insights and tools. Highly rated by professionals, it serves as both a learning journey and a go-to reference for tackling complex software dynamics.

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Review: Oftentimes it's pretty hard to follow the author. He's jumping from one subject to another within a single chapter without clearly expressing his thoughts. There is some useful information/reminder where computer latency is coming from, like caches, memory, etc. The author presents a few interesting use cases. But there's a lot of no so relevant information, like a bunch of chapters on how to write a program to detect cache size, or how to write own tracer. Described software will unlikely be used by anyone. At the same time the author does not mention SW dynamics in multi-core/multi-CPU environment, like cache false sharing, cache lines dynamics, etc. The last part of the book is the most interesting, but it's only 25% of the book. This book is overvalued.
Review: You can be a very good programmer understanding algorithms, you can be a very good architect building very large distributed systems, however, something that make some Computer scientists/architects/programmers unique is their deep understanding of what's happening in the layers below. This is not something you achieve at school but through a lot, a lot of experience. The author has summarized very well a collection of very useful experiences. For most of my 20 years of experience working as a programmer, researcher and computer architect, there has always been a new insight I found through performance investigations. Understanding why we had contention, where the critical path of an application was. It's usually hide and seek problem with lots of dynamic components, especially nowadays in the cloud. This book reminds me of lots of these battles written in a very easy manner educating the reader. Sites is a genius in this book by spending the first part of the book explaining the fundamentals, making sure the reader revisits all the trade-offs we learned at school or through our first programs. I could not skip a single chapter as it's well written and it was feeding my curiosity and getting me engaged. There is another set of chapters explaining tools. Something it seems the author has a lot of experience with. I imagine he contributed to a large set of tools at Google. Not only at user space level but at the kernel level. To make the book even more complete, the last chapters of the book are 'caviar' for me (most exquisite food ever). Waiting for queues, network, locks or disk. These are very common patterns that programmers deal with every day, even experienced ones. The author educates us very well here going through examples and all the trade-offs. Excellent job. This is a MUST book to have to anyone working with systems. Even if you're not the type of person that reads all the content of the book. Just as a manual for how to focus a specific problem. I've had it in my desk for a couple of months, and I have consulted several times to decide whether to use a specific pattern in my code in the Cloud or for infrastructure. I can't only complain about one thing, when is the second part of this book coming?

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #202,717 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #610 in Software Design, Testing & Engineering #1,334 in Computer Science #18,554 in Higher & Continuing Education Textbooks |
| Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (40) |
| Dimensions  | 17.78 x 2.92 x 23.11 cm |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0137589735 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0137589739 |
| Item weight  | 907 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 464 pages |
| Publication date  | 23 February 2022 |
| Publisher  | Addison-Wesley Professional |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by D***Y on 6 February 2024*

Oftentimes it's pretty hard to follow the author. He's jumping from one subject to another within a single chapter without clearly expressing his thoughts. There is some useful information/reminder where computer latency is coming from, like caches, memory, etc. The author presents a few interesting use cases. But there's a lot of no so relevant information, like a bunch of chapters on how to write a program to detect cache size, or how to write own tracer. Described software will unlikely be used by anyone. At the same time the author does not mention SW dynamics in multi-core/multi-CPU environment, like cache false sharing, cache lines dynamics, etc. The last part of the book is the most interesting, but it's only 25% of the book. This book is overvalued.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by C***S on 6 May 2022*

You can be a very good programmer understanding algorithms, you can be a very good architect building very large distributed systems, however, something that make some Computer scientists/architects/programmers unique is their deep understanding of what's happening in the layers below. This is not something you achieve at school but through a lot, a lot of experience. The author has summarized very well a collection of very useful experiences. For most of my 20 years of experience working as a programmer, researcher and computer architect, there has always been a new insight I found through performance investigations. Understanding why we had contention, where the critical path of an application was. It's usually hide and seek problem with lots of dynamic components, especially nowadays in the cloud. This book reminds me of lots of these battles written in a very easy manner educating the reader. Sites is a genius in this book by spending the first part of the book explaining the fundamentals, making sure the reader revisits all the trade-offs we learned at school or through our first programs. I could not skip a single chapter as it's well written and it was feeding my curiosity and getting me engaged. There is another set of chapters explaining tools. Something it seems the author has a lot of experience with. I imagine he contributed to a large set of tools at Google. Not only at user space level but at the kernel level. To make the book even more complete, the last chapters of the book are 'caviar' for me (most exquisite food ever). Waiting for queues, network, locks or disk. These are very common patterns that programmers deal with every day, even experienced ones. The author educates us very well here going through examples and all the trade-offs. Excellent job. This is a MUST book to have to anyone working with systems. Even if you're not the type of person that reads all the content of the book. Just as a manual for how to focus a specific problem. I've had it in my desk for a couple of months, and I have consulted several times to decide whether to use a specific pattern in my code in the Cloud or for infrastructure. I can't only complain about one thing, when is the second part of this book coming?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by E***A on 6 January 2025*

Excelente conteúdo!

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