Technical notes
Software performance,
in practice.
Practical thinking about software performance, from the shape of a latency distribution to the economics of adopting AI.
AI ADOPTION / 10 MIN READ
AI adoption: from impressive demo to operating advantage.
A CTO’s guide to the evidence, architecture, and unit economics behind AI that earns its place in production.
Read the article LATENCY / 5 MIN READYour average latency looks fine. Why are users still waiting?
Understand the tail, choose useful measurements, and investigate the requests an average can hide.
Read the article SCALABILITY / 5 MIN READBefore adding servers: finding the bottleneck that limits growth.
A practical sequence for finding your system’s limiting resource before buying more capacity.
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