Independent Systems Press
Short, data-driven technical books on how systems actually work. Every claim is measured with an open-source benchmark harness or cited to a primary source. Nothing here is hand-waved.
The Independent Systems Bundle
All four measured systems books, together - write paths, vector search, compression, and service routing, each with its reproducible benchmark - plus both free pocket references, bundled in. Save $23 (about 32%) vs buying the paid titles separately.

LSM-tree vs B-tree storage engines, measured

HNSW vs IVF vector-search indexes, measured on the same vectors

gzip vs LZ4 vs Zstd vs XZ vs Brotli - ratio vs speed, measured

iptables vs eBPF service routing in Kubernetes

A one-page regex pocket reference. Every pattern tested.

grep / sed / awk / sort by example, with real captured output