What I wish I had is a book that introduces control engineering in some depth for software folks like me. I wanted to write such a book, or half of such a book

What I wish I had is a book that introduces control engineering in some depth for software folks like me. I wanted to write such a book, or half of such a book, as a second part of Knative in Action. I wrote a simulator[0] and did a ton of reading which felt like I'd barely scratched the surface of the surface. But really, there's just no room for what I wanted to do. Based on a simple estimate it would have run to about 200 pages on top of another 250 pages of actually-about-Knative material. So that whole section wound on the cutting room floor. Maybe another time. In terms of books I felt helped me the most down this road, here's a reasonable reading list I'd point to: Feedback Control for Computer Systems: Introducing Control Theory to Enterprise Programmers, by Philipp Janert. Short, to-the-point introduction to basic classical control theory using PID controllers. Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management by Cachon and Terweisch. A short, meant-for-MBAs textbook on operations management (ie applied operations research). Simple and approachable. Very good for warming up to... Factory Physics by Hopp and Spearman. Magisterial in scope, also magisterial in grumpiness and idiosyncracy. I've directly applied material from this book and Matching to research work. Business Dynamics by Sterman. Still the best system dynamics book I've ever read. I'm anxiously waiting for the 2nd edition, expected circa 2021. Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action by Harchol-Balter. Approachable and enlightening. I stumbled on a few of the proofs and got lost once or twice in thickets of notation, but that's due to my own mathematical immaturity more than the book itself. But I still don't have a book to refer to for the specifics of software dynamics, spanning its physics and economics. And I wish I did. I would love to read that book, if folks can make recommendations. [0] https://github.com/pivotal/skenario https://github.com/pivotal/skenario