I’m going to be giving a talk at SREcon Americas 2025 in Santa Clara in March. I’m going to discuss how I approached a giant performance problem in a service that I knew almost nothing about; the slightly-less-technical version of the story is on Figma’s blog. This is less a talk on “how I made things go fast”, and more a talk on how you approach unknown problems. What do you know? What don’t you know? What can you measure? How can you perform experiments? Who can you reach out to...
