But how many of those are relevant after two years when another shiny framework becomes popular? An absolute minority. No one knows how to write performant software anymoreĮven if the product owner would agree to spend more time on performance improvements, could software engineers do that? Every day hundreds of video tutorials, blogs, and courses are uploaded to the internet. Users are forced to download large applications, but is it really necessary? For example, Postman takes up 399 MB on my computer.
On the other hand, software engineers did a poor job if software turned to be slow and bloated. On the one hand, the statement is correct. The prevailing view is that computer resources are cheap, but the work of a programmer is expensive, and it is not worth spending a costly programmer’s work to optimize code. Ironically, unlike browsing the web, people can’t stop using not performant and unstable programs because they depend on them to do their job. For example, a Google study found, as a page load time goes from: * 1s to 3s, the probability of bounce rate increases 32% * 1s to 5s, the probability of bounce rate increases 90% * 1s to 6s, the probability of bounce rate increases 106% * 1s to 10s, the probability of bounce rate increases 123% Multiple studies show that website load speed has a significant impact on website bounce rate. But we quickly realize it when we start using slow software. It is difficult for us to understand how impactful those seconds actually are.
A few seconds is a very short measure of time in human life. Instead, they would spend that time adding a new feature, which only 1 percent of users will use, and probably further decrease application’s performance. Developers have managers, and managers have other priorities. But when the developers care about code and product enough, they go back and clean their mess. This meme is so relatable! Every programmer sometimes takes shortcuts.
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