How to Make Things Faster

About the Author

Cary Millsap spent the 1990s learning a lifetime’s worth of technical and political lessons as a traveling consultant for Oracle Corporation. He and the teams of performance specialists he recruited and trained at Oracle helped hundreds of customers around the world. In 1999, he co-founded a company called Hotsos, which became renowned for its annual performance-focused symposium event. In 2008, he founded Method R Corporation, which has served many of your favorite brands and created the world’s first software system for managing, mining, and manipulating thousands of Oracle trace files. Cary and colleague Jeff Holt were named Oracle Magazine’s 2004 Authors of the Year for writing Optimizing Oracle Performance. He is the author of The Method R Guide to Mastering Oracle Trace Data and coauthor of Tracing Oracle. He has helped to educate thousands of information technology professionals through his commitment to writing and teaching. He is published in professional journals including Communications of the ACM.