Testing Your Performance with Ada Lundhe
Fork Around And Find Out · Justin Garrison & Autumn Nash
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Show Notes
How Rachel Ray’s crawler lead to Ada developing a new performance testing framework, hyperscale. This leads to a great conversation about the benefits of rust, modern python package managers, and why MySpace went out of business. The importance of connecting what you’re building to business value and understanding every line of code has a cost.
Show Highlights
(0:00) Intro
(8:00) Rachel Ray crawler
(15:00) Performance testing
(20:00) Moving in to tech
(31:00) Hyperscale and uv
(39:00) Does memory safety matter?
(43:00) Datavant
(54:00) Connecting performance to business
(1:02:00) Spicy takes
Links Referenced
- Performance testing tools:
- Modern Python packaging: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
- FAFO starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/LqoyyNq
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