Sajeesh Nair

writing for volume. quantity over quality.

Building High Performance Cloud Data Protection

Last 3 years I have had the opportunity to work on some of the hardest problems of scale and performance in storage domain. Druva’s data protection is the first of its kind. Cloud-native and SaaS ground up. This means we are the first ones to solve some of the technical challenges in this space. In this blog I talk about some of the key areas that performance engineers focus on.

Cognitive Biases in Performance Engineering

I started reading about behavioural psychology a few months back. And I couldn’t help thinking about all the cognitive traps that a performance engineer faces every day. In this essay I try to expand my own understanding of cognitive biases and how they are relevant to the field of performance engineering. As I learn more about this topic it is very likely that I may update some of the views expressed in this writeup.