Gregory's Server@chandlerc (Thanks for the articles and response)
I'm curious, how much of that optimization is done on the infra side, compared to the application side? I was under the impression that orgs prioritizing infra optimizations, like PGO, data structures, stdlib stuff like memcpy, improving compilers etc.
Perhaps I'm way off base. I guess what I'm curious about is how much effort is spent on application-specific optimizations, things that perhaps *don't* carry over to other parts of the codebase.
@dist1ll The larger applications have their own teams driving application-side optimizations. That covers a *lot* of the larger applications.
And we then also have a large team that drives infrastructure level optimizations just like what you mention.
It's a joint effort, and both teams talk extensively. So for these systems, they are *very* well optimized. There are huge incentives to find and fix any significant inefficiencies.