> When I grew up in computer science in the 90s, everybody was concerned about efficiency...“Somehow in the last 20 years, this has gotten lost. Everybody’s completely gung-ho about performance without any regard for efficiency or resource consumption. I think it’s time to pivot, where we can find ways to make things a little more efficient.
This is the sort of performance efficiencies I want to keep seeing on this site, from those who are distinguished experts and contributed to critical systems such as the Linux kernel.
Unfortunately, in the last 10-15 years we are seeing the worst technologies being paraded due to a cargo-cultish behaviour. From asking candidates to implement the most efficient solution to a problem in interviews but then also choosing the most extremely inefficient technologies to solve certain problems because so-called software shops are racing for that VC money. Money that goes to hundreds of k8s instances on many over-provisioned servers instead of a few.
Performance efficiency critically matters, and it is the difference between having enough runway for a sustainable business vs having none at all.
And nope. AI Agents / Vibe coders could not have come up with a more correct solution in the article.
This is the sort of performance efficiencies I want to keep seeing on this site, from those who are distinguished experts and contributed to critical systems such as the Linux kernel.
Unfortunately, in the last 10-15 years we are seeing the worst technologies being paraded due to a cargo-cultish behaviour. From asking candidates to implement the most efficient solution to a problem in interviews but then also choosing the most extremely inefficient technologies to solve certain problems because so-called software shops are racing for that VC money. Money that goes to hundreds of k8s instances on many over-provisioned servers instead of a few.
Performance efficiency critically matters, and it is the difference between having enough runway for a sustainable business vs having none at all.
And nope. AI Agents / Vibe coders could not have come up with a more correct solution in the article.