The Impact of Micro-Optimizations at Google Scale | Rick Altherr

Rick Altherr walks through how, when working at a company at the scale of Google, ruthlessly optimizing performance can have massive financial impact. Rick's anecdotes include finding a CPU scheduler bug impacting Google search auto-complete, and allocating reserved PCIe pins for USB access to expansion cards.
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