CZ.NIC Publications released another book on open source
Twelve case studies in which the authors describe methods and tricks to improve the performance of open source applications, this is what readers can now find in the book published under a Creative Commons license by the Czech national domain administrator, the CZ.NIC Association. The main editor of the nearly 300 page publication The Performance of Open Source Applications is a Canadian Tavish Armstrong. The electronic version of the book, as well as 12 other releases of CZ.NIC Publications, is available for free download at http://knihy.nic.cz. Fans of hard copies can order the title for CZK 329 or, if ordered via IPv6, for CZK 279.
Prague, August 11., 2016 — Twelve case studies in which the authors describe methods and tricks to improve the performance of open source applications, this is what readers can now find in the book published under a Creative Commons license by the Czech national domain administrator, the CZ.NIC Association. The main editor of the nearly 300 page publication The Performance of Open Source Applications is a Canadian Tavish Armstrong. The electronic version of the book, as well as 12 other releases of CZ.NIC Publications, is available for free download at http://knihy.nic.cz. Fans of hard copies can order the title for CZK 329 or, if ordered via IPv6, for CZK 279.
The range of the case studies contained in the book is very wide: from speculative optimizations through sophisticated parsing algorithms to specifics of mobile devices. A seasoned software professional might be quite surprised by the penultimate chapter demonstrating that even “impractical” functional languages may offer an elegant solution to improve performance. A secondary, but also very interesting issue in one way or another rendered in most chapters, are procedures that can measure the real performance of software systems and compare it with alternative implementations.
"In comparison with previous titles of CZ.NIC Publications, this book is dealing with a rather specialized topic — tuning the performance of software applications. Although the growth of processor speed and memory capacity was phenomenal during the last decades, applications running smoothly are not a matter of course or something unearned even today. It is due to the fact that they must handle ever larger and more complex data and present the results to increasingly demanding users. Software developers should therefore pay attention to the performance aspects both at the stage of developing the application and during testing and debugging," writes in the book’s preface Ladislav Lhotka, researcher and developer of CZ.NIC, who participated in the Czech edition of The Performance of Open Source Applications as editor.
More information about the individual titles and the CZ.NIC Publications is available at http://knihy.nic.cz. There you can get a free PDF version of the books or to order the printed version.
About CZ.NIC Publications
CZ.NIC Publications is one of the many educational projects of the Czech national top-level domain administrator, the CZ.NIC association. The aim of this project is to publish both expert and popular publications associated with the Internet and its technologies. The first publication issued in 2008 was the second edition of the popular book by Pavel Satrapa “IPv6” (you can now find its third edition at the CZ.NIC Publications website). This was followed by the books “Pro Git” by Scott Chacon, “Dive into Python 3” by Mark Pilgrim, “The Wonderful World of Electronic Signatures” by Jiří Peterka, “Producing Open Source Software” by Karel Fogel, “The Internet as an Object of Law” by Ján Matejka, “Own Your Space” by Linda McCarthy and Denise Weldon-Siviy, “LibreOffice Writer” by Vlastimil Otta, “Dive into HTML5” by Mark Pilgrim, “Modern Use of Moodle” by Václav Maměna et al. and most recently a comic book “How to Use the Internet” by Jiří Vaněk et al. In addition to the printed version, electronic version of these books is also available. For more information, see http://knihy.nic.cz.