1. Manifesto: The Art of Building Efficient Systems
For many, development ends at the "it works" stage. Their success is measured by the number of closed Jira tickets and successfully deployed features. But for an engineer, this moment is only the beginning. The real work begins where code stops being just text and starts interacting efficiently with the infrastructure.
I am launching the ENGINEERING category because I am convinced that performance is not a "tune-up" performed right before release, nor an attempt to fix "sluggishness" by adding cache at the very last moment. Performance is the foundation of architecture.
Why does this matter?
Development Economics: A system that delivers a response in 200 ms consumes significantly fewer CPU and memory resources. This translates directly into lower cloud infrastructure costs and project longevity.
