GitHub - daniellockyer/awesome-performance: ⚡️ A curated list of awesome performance stories

2026/01/22 Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster 2026/01/13 I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck 2025/12/16 Parallelizing ClickHouse aggregation merge for fixed hash map 2025/10/23 3x-9x Faster Apache Parquet Footer Metadata Using a Custom Thrift Parser in Rust 2025/08/04 How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast 2025/06/30 Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust 2025/06/05 How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes 2025/05/01 Making PyPI's test suite 81% faster 2025/03/20 Optimizing RavenDB by 170,000% by not being silly 2025/03/19 How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025 2025/03/12 Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 2025/03/09 Meta made 1-character change to free up 15k servers of capacity per year 2025/01/31 When Postgres index meets Bcrypt 2024/08/26 How We Switched from SQLite to DuckDB and Reduced Our Users’ Local Database Size by 97% 2024/05/08 Sentry on Sentry: How Metrics saved us $160K 2024/04/09 Optimizing Rust Protobuf Decoding Performance 2024/03/06 How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2024 2024/01/18 Scaling Strava Challenge Leaderboards for Millions of Athletes 2024/01/16 Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó 2023/08/25 How to speed up the Rust compiler in August 2023 2023/07/27 Performance Hints (by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat) 2023/03/24 How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2023 2022/10/27 How to speed up the Rust compiler in October 2022 2022/07/20 How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2022 2022/04/12 How to speed up the Rust compiler in April 2022 2022/02/25 How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2022 2021/11/12 The Rust compiler has gotten faster again 2021/05/26 Scaling Strava Club Leaderboard Infrastructure for Millions of Users 2021/05/20 Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU EC2 Instance 2020/08/05 How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020 2020/04/24 Using Protobuf to make Jira Cloud faster 2020/04/24 How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020 2019/12/11 How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time in 2019 2019/10/11 How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2019 2019/07/17 How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2019 2018/11/06 How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition 2018/06/05 How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018 2018/04/30 How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018 2016/11/23 How to speed up the Rust compiler some more 2016/10/14 How to speed up the Rust compiler