Topic

Efficientcy

A collection of 2 issues

AI now worries about performance. We, as developers, must worry about

When I was deep in hands-on development years ago, I had to understand the inner workings of databases to achieve acceptable performance. Even a small change in query casing could cause cache aging out, leading to HDD hits and a dramatic drop in speed. To avoid this, I spent countless

Beyond Cycle Time and Lead Time: What Productivity Really Means in Software Engineering

For years, our industry has tried to measure developer productivity in a simple way. Cycle Time, Lead Time, deployment frequency, sprint velocity—these metrics are useful, but they are far from the whole picture. And yet, many teams still fall into the trap of managing productivity as if we’re