Performance Engineering at Scale: Designing Systems That Survive Reality, Not Just Traffic

By Mohan Rayithi

Most systems don't fail when they break.
They fail when they slow down.

Performance Engineering at Scale is not a textbook. It's a field guide forged from real-world outages, cascading failures, and high-stakes production systems.

This book goes beyond tuning and testing to expose the uncomfortable truth:
performance is not a metric-it's behavior under pressure.

Inside, you'll learn:

Why average latency lies-and tail latency destroys systemsHow microservices, retries, and failover can trigger collapseWhy most load tests pass... and production still failsHow data, not code, becomes your biggest bottleneckWhy throwing infrastructure at problems increases cost and riskHow to design systems that survive real-world chaos-not ideal conditions

Written for enterprise architects, SRE leaders, and senior engineers, this book delivers hard-earned insights, architectural trade-offs, and decision-making frameworks you won't find in documentation.

If you are responsible for systems that cannot fail-but inevitably will,
this book will change how you design, scale, and think.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW2K7BBX
• ISBN13: 9798254830009
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"