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Performance and Search
Summary
Dan Luu discusses how to estimate performance using back of the envelope calculations that can be done in minutes or hours, even for applications that take months or years to implement. He discusses a core search algorithm used in Bing, how they initially estimated the performance and decided the system was worth building, and how the actual performance compared to the estimated performance.
Bio
Dan Luu is a Senior Engineer at Microsoft.
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