"In this room, we deliver success, we don’t whine.
Look, I’m not confused, I know you walk through fields of shit every day.
Your job is to find the rose petals."
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Performance Hints
Over the years, my colleague Sanjay Ghemawat and I have done a fair bit of diving into performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document a couple of years ago as a way of identifying some general principles and we've recently published a version of it externally.
We'd love any feedback you might have!
Read the full doc at: https://t.co/jej95g236P
As a software engineer, it's very important to learn about Gall’s Law, which states that complex systems cannot be created successfully from scratch.
In reality, even large systems, such as Netflix, Google, or Facebook, have started small and built incrementally over the course of decades.