Tag
amortization
- May 1, 2026 Batching and the Amortization of Per-Item Cost How grouping work converts a fixed per-operation cost into a per-batch cost, where the delay comes from, and why batch size is a throughput constraint rather than a tuning knob. performance engineering
- Nov 21, 2025 Batching and the Amortization of Per-Request Cost How grouping work into larger units trades latency for throughput, which fixed costs actually amortize, and where a batch becomes slower than the sum of its parts. backend systems
- Apr 26, 2025 Contention Ceilings and the Limits of Parallel Scaling Why adding workers to a shared counter, lock, or cache line stops helping, how the serial fraction bounds speedup, and which designs remove the ceiling instead of raising it. backend systems