[whalesalad]

This reads like one of those recipe blogs where you first need to hear about great grandpappy's migration during the potato famine before you can get to the details on how to make cupcakes. First 5 paragraphs are just noise.

[hvb2]

Try to imagine the hours going into a post like this.

These posts are among the very best, digging into details explaining why things work and why changes were made.

Every time they get released I'm happy because no one killed it...

[yread]

To be fair there is like 500 paragraphs of content after it

[jiggawatts]

The first five paragraphs tell a very relevant story to drive a key point home: performance is often about many small things shaved down, not one giant silver bullet.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen customers immediately “double down” on the size of their servers as a quick fix… and achieving nothing other than increasing their cloud provider’s revenue.

Performance comes from a long series of individually small fixes.