Performance Solutions: A Practical Guide to Creating Responsive, Scalable Software
Software Performance is an important area of concern for practitioners.  Even so, very few books have been published about it, and these books have been so mathematical in their presentations that few readers have been able understand or apply them. During the pre-publication review process, it became very apparent that Connie Smith and Lloyd Williams were writing a Software Performance book that would be accessible to a much wider audience, and that they were doing so without abandoning rigor or integrity. They were writing a book that practitioners could use to their immediate and practical advantage.  Upon completion of their work, we were delighted to have our sense of the book confirmed by Paul Clements in his foreword to the book:"The result is a book that utterly demystifies the job (no longer an art) of performance engineering. Monsters, begone! Wizards, away! It leaves you feeling that you could really do this on your own."We take great pride in publishing this book, and truly believe that it will be a lasting contribution to the literature of the software engineering field.