Performance Engineering

A method for performance work that does not rely on guessing, applied subsystem by subsystem across CPU, memory, I/O and network.

6 courses · available in all eight cities and live online

Method2 courses

PRF-1012 days Performance Methodology & the USE Method A repeatable process for performance investigation, so you stop tuning things that were never the bottleneck. Practitioner Practitioner-taught SAR 5,250Next 1 Nov PRF-1102 days Benchmarking Without Fooling Yourself Producing performance numbers that survive scrutiny, including your own six months later. Practitioner Practitioner-taught SAR 5,250Next 11 Oct

By subsystem4 courses

PRF-2013 days CPU & Scheduler Tuning Getting the scheduler out of your way: placement, priorities, frequency scaling and isolation. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 9,000Next 22 Nov PRF-2103 days Memory & TLB Optimisation Memory-bound workloads: huge pages, NUMA placement, allocator behaviour and reclaim pressure. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 9,000Next 1 Nov PRF-2203 days I/O & Block Layer Tuning Storage performance from the filesystem to the device queue, including NVMe specifics. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 9,000Next 18 Oct PRF-2303 days Network Stack Tuning Getting throughput and latency out of the kernel network path, and knowing when to leave it. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 9,000Next 15 Nov