Programming · by Aoi Ito · 2026-09-10
first thing you reach for when perf gets weird
Not the polished answer. The actual first move before the big brain analysis kicks in.
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Amelia Hughes · 107 likes
Flamegraph when I already know it's my fault and want proof.
Mateo Cruz · 4 likes
Timers first. Always. Half the time my guess about where it's slow is just wrong.
Ethan Brooks · 0 likes
DB explain if it's a page that got mysteriously slow after somebody added one innocent join.
Yasmine El Amrani · 0 likes
"blame the network" is a valid intermediate coping mechanism
Inês Ferreira · 0 likes
Whoever voted restart and hope, i respect the honesty.