Best performance engineering blogs to follow
39 of the 211 blogs in the full directory of engineering blogs are tagged Performance and low-level. Each one is listed below with a one-line description and who recommended it.
Brendan Gregg on systems performance and Daniel Lemire on SIMD and algorithms publish often and measure everything. Travis Downs and Denis Bakhvalov go down to how the processor itself behaves. Dan Luu, who was named by more people than anyone else on this list, writes long, heavily researched essays on performance, hardware and how engineering organisations work.
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- Dan Luu
Personal · Named by 3 people
Deep dives on performance, hardware and engineering culture
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet), Vivek Nathani, Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Cloudflare Blog
Company · Named by 2 people
Networking, security, performance and outage post-mortems from Cloudflare
Recommended by Vivek Nathani, Shreyas P
- PlanetScale
Company · Named by 2 people
Databases at scale: MySQL/Vitess, Postgres, storage and performance
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet), localhost:8080 (@girdharshukla26)
- Alisa Sireneva
Personal
Low-level optimisation, Rust and performance puzzles
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Aras Pranckevičius
Personal
Graphics, Unity and Blender internals, compression and performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Arseny Kapoulkine
Personal
Graphics, mesh optimisation, Luau and performance engineering
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Ben Hoyt
Personal
Go, Python, AWK and practical performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Ben Joffe
Personal
Fast date algorithms and low-level optimisation
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Brendan Gregg
Personal
Systems performance, eBPF and flame graphs
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Bruce Dawson
Personal
Windows performance investigations, debugging and floating point
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- ClickHouse Blog
Company
OLAP database internals, query performance and analytics engineering
Recommended by Vivek Nathani
- Daniel Lemire
Personal
Software performance, SIMD and algorithms
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Denis Bakhvalov
Personal
CPU performance analysis and tuning
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Evan Jones
Personal
Distributed systems, databases and low-level performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Fabian Giesen
Personal
Graphics, compression, CPU architecture and low-level optimisation
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Huon Wilson
Personal
Rust internals, performance and build tooling
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet)
- Julian Hyde
Personal
SQL, query optimisation and Apache Calcite
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Justin Jaffray
Personal
NULL BITMAP newsletter: databases and query optimisers
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Justine Tunney
Personal
Portable executables, Cosmopolitan libc and low-level hacks
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Malte Skarupke
Personal
C++, hash tables, algorithms and performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Mark Callaghan
Personal
MySQL, Postgres and RocksDB performance benchmarks
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Nelson Elhage
Personal
Systems, performance, debugging and engineering thinking
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Oren Eini
Personal
Database internals (RavenDB) and .NET performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Orson Peters
Personal
Algorithms, sorting, hashing and Rust
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Paul Calvano
Personal
Web performance and HTTP analysis
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Paul Khuong
Personal
Low-level performance, data structures and optimisation
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Richard Startin
Personal
Java and JVM performance, vectorisation and profiling
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Ryan Fleury
Personal
Systems and UI programming, memory arenas, debugger design
Recommended by localhost:8080 (@girdharshukla26)
- Sam Saffron
Personal
Discourse co-founder on Ruby performance, running Discourse and AI tooling
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet)
- Simon Eskildsen
Personal
Napkin maths, infrastructure and performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Slava Egorov
Personal
VM internals (V8, Dart), JITs and JavaScript performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Stefan Marr
Personal
Language implementation, interpreters and benchmarking
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Tanel Poder
Personal
Linux and database performance troubleshooting
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Travis Downs
Personal
x86 micro-architecture and performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Tristan Hume
Personal
Systems, tracing, performance and hardware projects
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Wojciech Muła
Personal
SIMD and low-level optimisation
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Baseten Model Performance
Company
Inference speed and optimisation
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Datadog Engineering
Company
Observability systems and incident reviews
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Jane Street
Company
OCaml and trading systems
Recommended by Editor's pick
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