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Performance
Making systems faster and more efficient under real-world load — latency reduction, load balancing strategies, caching trade-offs, throughput optimization, and the measurement practices that turn guesswork into confident decisions.
11 posts- May 14, 2026 Weighted load balancing has saved me more times than I can count performance
- April 30, 2026 Deterministic routing is one of the most effective ways distributed systems reduce consistency problems at scale performance
- January 22, 2026 Performance testing without a target is like running a race with no finish line performance
- January 15, 2026 Many teams think performance testing means throwing traffic at a system until it breaks. That approach is fine, but it misses how systems are actually stressed in the real world. performance
- January 8, 2026 Pre-populating caches is a “bolt-on” cache-optimization I've used successfully in many systems. It works, but it adds complexity performance
- October 31, 2025 ⚡️Does saving 1 millisecond really matter? Answer: more than you’d think. performance
- October 24, 2025 When Building Low-Latency, High-Scale Systems, Push as Much Processing as Possible to Later performance
- September 26, 2025 Improve performance and reduce chances of request failures with this one simple trick! Avoid cross-region calls. performance
- September 19, 2025 Did you know Kube-proxy doesn’t perform load-balancing itself? It’s iptables (by default). performance
- August 22, 2025 Sometimes when I tell people that logging can impact a microservices response time, I get strange looks. 🤨 performance
- August 15, 2025 How many times have you seen analytics on an operational database create issues? I’ve seen it far too often. performance