Part X — Performance & Security Engineering

Part X develops the ability to make bounded, evidence-led judgements about whether a system can meet relevant performance expectations and resist relevant security threats under stated conditions.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 — Performance & Security Engineering: Boundaries, Evidence, and Decisions

   150 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Parts I and III; Part VIII evidence concepts recommended

2. Chapter 2 — Workload, Threat, and Measurement Models

   210 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapter 1 and basic quantitative reasoning

3. Chapter 3 — Latency, Throughput, Concurrency, and Performance Evidence

   210 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–2

4. Chapter 4 — Performance Experiments: Load, Stress, Variability, and Validity

   210 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–3

5. Chapter 5 — Capacity, Scalability, Queues, and Bottleneck Evidence

   210 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–4; Part VIII measurement concepts recommended

6. Chapter 6 — Performance Regression and Production-Evidence Handoff

   210 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–5

7. Chapter 7 — Security Quality: Assets, Trust Boundaries, and Threat Models

   170 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–2 and Parts III–IV

8. Chapter 8 — Authentication, Authorization, Sessions, and API Boundaries

   210 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–2 and 7; Part IV recommended

9. Chapter 9 — Input, Output, Dependencies, Secrets, and Configuration Trust

   180 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 7–8; Parts IV and VIII recommended

10. Chapter 10 — Security Evidence: Findings, Verification, and Residual Risk

    210 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 7–9

11. Chapter 11 — Performance–Security Trade-offs, Regression, and Decision Readiness

    220 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–10

12. Chapter 12 — Capstone: Performance & Security Strategy and Evidence Portfolio

    330 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–11