As always, I enjoyed this short post from Cary. His book "Faster" remains one of my favorite books about performance that I've ever read.

For anyone who uses woodworking as a metaphor for software development, you should know… “Measure Once, Cut Twice (No, Really)” method-r.com/2008/12/19/mea… Uncle Bob Martin

My 10 favorite investment tweets of 2023 1. A book called shut up and wait by Morgan Housel:

That’s a strong board.

Always a pleasure listening to Toon. Don’t miss—this will be a good one.

“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.” “Start projects by measuring the current state of the world. ...When you measure the baseline you will actually know whether you are fixing things.” And more, from Kent Beck 🌻 open.substack.com/pub/tidyfirst/…

Haven’t seen an Avengers movie before—great fun! I’m now watching Tony Stark battle Jonathan Davis’s microphone stand.

Hey, my newest book is available in audio! I love this, because my favorite way to consume books these days is listing to audio on long walks outside. everand.com/audiobook/6993…

What I wish Scribd (Everand) could do: #AI Me: “Hey Everand…” Everand: (Stops narrating) “Yes?” M: “Can you remind me how Ron’s mom got hurt?” E: “Sure, Ron’s mom was injured in a car accident. Would you like to hear that story again? I’ll save your place here…”

This is must-see stuff right here.

Gwen (Chen) Shapira Get in the trenches for your vertical, your industry. Sit next to the people doing data entry and running reports. I love how this comes through so well in Cary Millsap book Faster, and it applies to everything about building, not just perf. Every frustration is an opportunity.

“...attention is very seductive and very addictive.” youtube.com/shorts/6eENuey…

New blog post inspired by Christopher Voss carymillsap.com/2024/08/22/elf…

(2/2) See more from Martin Kleppmann, Chris, Piotr Sarna, Dominik Tornow, ScyllaDB, Cary Millsap, @LizRice, Señor Performo 🤠, Peter Zaitsev, @tanelpoder, Kerry Osborne, Ramnivas Laddad, and Cynthia Dunlop p99conf.io/2024/10/07/boo… #P99CONF #Rustlang #ScyllaDB #Golang #Wasm #Zig #Linux #techtips

A new Bits & Bytes video is out! This time, I sat down with the incredible Cary Millsap to hear about his journey in IT and how he became one of the renowned #Oracle #Database #Performance experts. 🎬 youtube.com/watch?v=x_rK2o… // Oracle AI Database Oracle Developers Oracle User Groups

(4/5) Measuring and Diagnosing Performance Shouldn't Require Magic (Cary Millsap, @oracle) Struggling with #performance issues despite all green metrics? Experts say you need special skills, but this talk will show why it happens and how to tackle these issues. #DevTips #DIY

Another day, another great talk at P99CONF ... Cary Millsap teaching us how we can optimize the latency of our application. Always good, ScyllaDB

The spirit of Cary Millsap is at #doag2024 in Christoph Lutz presentation 🤓