Feedback Control for Computer Systems
- title
- Feedback Control for Computer Systems
- type
- book
- summary
- Janert teaching PID loops and stability theory to engineers building autoscalers and rate limiters
- author
- Philipp K. Janert
- year
- 2013
- tags
- control-theory, systems, performance
- status
- want-to-read
- sources
- eatonphil-bookclub
- created
- 2026-05-12
- updated
- 2026-05-12
O'Reilly (2013). Janert teaches classical control theory (PID loops, stability, transfer functions) for software engineers running queues, autoscalers, rate limiters, and load balancers. The pitch is that "make a graph and add a threshold" is a control loop without theory; this book is the theory you keep wishing you had when the loop oscillates. On the eatonphil-bookclub speculative future list.
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