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He's a games programmer. He's using examples outside his industry to illustrate that his points aren't specific to games (excuse 4). What industry would you lik
by omnicognate 4y ago
He's a games programmer. He's using examples outside his industry to illustrate that his points aren't specific to games (excuse 4). What industry would you like him to talk about?
- kragen 4y agosmes doing hourly contract crud development startups
- vgatherps 4y agoTo be fair, performance is usually part of the “does it work in real life” question, it’s just that doing sensible things is probably good enough. The crud app at your startup probably doesn’t need to worry about cutting optimizing every last millisecond off of page load or scaling across some k8s cluster or whatever. But I’ve stopped using (or never seriously tried) otherwise good services because of flow-stopping performance problems i.e. multi-second page loads, stuttering pages, battery drain, etc.
- kragen 4y agoi'm not the one you need to convince, i'm just saying what marketing collateral i need to convince the skeptical: specific, detailed stories from those sectors, ideally at least somewhat verifiable (not a pseudonymous comment your wife's cousin read on hn) but specific and detailed goes a long way
- ahtihn 4y agoB2B SaaS targeting "enterprise" customers. You know the kind where the people making the buying decision aren't users. Does Atlassian look like they care about the performance of their products? Is it a significant factor in their sales? Does the average ERP or CRM system compete on performance?
- roju_ 4y agoOn the Atlassian blog you can certainly also find posts about improving performance. [1] [1] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/platform/cloud-performance-updates-q4-fy21 https://www.atlassian.com/blog/platform/cloud-performance-up...
- onion2k 4y agoTo be fair, going from 30s to load a page to 20s is a huge improvement.