Performance Culture

1 · Joe Duffy · April 10, 2016, 8 p.m.
In this essay, I’ll talk about “performance culture.” Performance is one of the key pillars of software engineering, and is something that’s hard to do right, and sometimes even difficult to recognize. As a famous judge once said, “I know it when I see it.” I’ve spoken at length about performance and culture independently before, however the intersection of the two is where things get interesting. Teams who do this well have performance ingrained into nearly all aspects of how the team opera...