When Every Line Counts: Database Optimisation at Scale
Database engineers at Meta discovered something counterintuitive: making their systems handle five times more load required writing less code, not more. This paradox—that constraints breed elegance—reveals why the best infrastructure engineers think like minimalists. When Santosh Praneeth Banda led parallel replication optimisation at Meta, reducing bottlenecks wasn’t about adding complexity; it was about ruthlessly eliminating…