AJ Stuyvenberg
@astuyve
AWS Hero 💫 Staff eng @Datadoghq 👨🏻💻 sometimes streamer 🎥 AKA Aaron Stuyvenberg Ask me about your p99
Check out that p99 cliff! I spent 2024 shipping our next-generation Lambda Extension, which offers an 82% improvement in cold start time, better aggregation and flushing options, and lower overall overhead – all in a substantially smaller binary package. How we did it, below:
I'm speaking at p99conf! Register now and then come learn about rust, lambda, and cold starts!
@DatadogHQ rewrote its AWS Lambda Extension from #Golang to #Rustlang with no Rust experience. @astuyve shares how they achieved an 80% Lambda cold start improvement along with a 50% memory footprint reduction at our free & virtual #P99CONF. ow.ly/yJk550WrVG2 #ScyllaDB
You can just measure (and fix) things
And it's over. I worked on a fix yesterday and today to ensure there wasn't 1 million+ cache write/delete fights every day at midnight, fixing old code (circa 2019/2020). The end result is beautiful. A huge outcome is we will now run 1.5 billion queries less per month 🥳
BREAKING: Vercel Employee Rhys has confirmed he is going to DataDog (summit).
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
QOTD: "Nothing is more annoying than someone who does their own research." @TheStalwart