Performance Engineering | Software Systems | MIT OCW

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Explore high-performance software design and implementation techniques with MIT's 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems course.

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Introduction

This course covers techniques for designing and implementing high-performance software systems. It focuses on understanding the performance characteristics of hardware and software, and how to use that understanding to build fast and scalable applications.

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Highlights

Covers a wide range of performance engineering topics, including profiling, caching, parallelism, and optimization
Hands-on programming assignments and projects to apply the concepts learned
Taught by experienced professors in the field of computer science and software engineering

Recommendation

This course is recommended for students and professionals interested in building efficient and scalable software systems. It provides a solid foundation in performance engineering principles and practical skills that can be applied to a variety of software development projects.

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