I think what really hits home are the stories about people upgrading elements at the foundation of their stack—their platform or framework—after those foundations have seen optimization efforts. It is rewarding to see application developers realize dramatic performance boosts within their applications with so little effort; we feel we have contributed to this delight in a small way. For example, check out this post by the Azure Active Directory team [1] where they saw massive performance improvements by upgrading from .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.1 (which isn't even the latest version).

Some people focus too much on specific rank ordering and the optimization efforts made by those who jockey for top spots. It's better to consume the data in rough tiers of performance, however you choose to define those tiers. We tend to encourage people to consider performance as one part of the puzzle when selecting infrastructure software. Several high performance platforms and frameworks (in Java, Rust, C#, Go, Python, and more) are also ergonomic and easy to work with. And using high performance infrastructure software means you can avoid premature optimization in your application code and avoid premature architectual complexity. You can enjoy the trifecta of architectural simplicity, low-latency, and good scale headroom.

Obviously we know this project will always receive diverse and critical opinions. That's fine; hackers are a very opinionated people. For those who value the data, ourselves included, we are happy to keep putting the effort in.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure-active-directory...