TBH the specific examples I had in mind when I was writing my post were mostly backend systems, including batch ones. A lot of the performance improvements I e

TBH the specific examples I had in mind when I was writing my post were mostly backend systems, including batch ones. A lot of the performance improvements I extract from software is by dividing up what needs to be fast and what can be slow, and slowing down the slow stuff to free up resources for the fast stuff etc. I just chuck this in because I think its interesting how many perspectives and directions people on HN have.