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A free MIT course about building scalable & high-performance software systems: (v/MIT OpenCourseWare) Here, MIT prof. & CSAIL principal investigator Charles Leiserson discusses why performance matters in computing (Lecture 1).

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Mohamed8 months ago

@MITOCW This is the 6.172 class. A well-detailed book that goes with these lectures is "Introduction to Algorithms, 4th Edition."

Sabeer Saeed8 months ago

@MITOCW Super Outstanding 👌 👍 😍

Prahlad Yeri8 months ago

@MITOCW Highly relevant. Performance optimization is the most underrated topic in programming discussions today.

harjot.co8 months ago

@MITOCW Performance is overrated-scalability needs soul

Junji Lim | Strategy & Systems8 months ago

@MITOCW Understanding performance is key to scalable systems.

David Sargent8 months ago

@MITOCW Great information to use. Thank you very much!

Mohamed8 months ago

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James J8 months ago

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