The Hardware Knowledge That Every Programmer Should Know
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If you're building your software in a way that won't be able to perform better with superior disk/db/network performance, then it isn't worthwhile to ever upgrade to a more performant disk/db/network.
If it is possible, make sure your software will actually be faster on a faster disk rather than just testing on a slow disk and thinking "well we're I/O bound anyway, so no need to improve perf".
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[1] R. E. Bryant and D. R. O’Hallaron. Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective. Prentice Hall, 3rd edition, 2015.
It´s a shame that the last edition is from ten years ago, although to be fair I actually only read the 2nd and only skimmed the 3rd one. Still, would be nice to get an update using ARM.