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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

boostmarks@hachyderm.io ("Boris Schapira") wrote:

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"The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024", Alex Russel (@slightlyoff)
https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/

"We got to a place where performance has been a constant problem in large part because a tribe of programmers convinced themselves that it wasn't and wouldn't be. The circa '13 narrative that:

- CPUs would keep getting faster
- Networks would get better, or at least not get worse.
- Organisations had all learned the lessons of Google and FaceBook's adventures in Ajax.

was all bullshit"