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Performance
Benchmarks lie; production traces don't. Notes on setting latency budgets that users notice, profiling what's actually hot, and shipping optimizations that survive the next load test.
Performance work compounds when it’s measured; it evaporates when it’s vibes. The bar here is: did the fix change user-visible behavior, did the change show up in a trace you’d defend under review, and does the monitoring keep it honest next quarter?
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