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Rico Mariani interview covers institutional side of software performance and the pit of success concept
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Casey Muratori interviews Rico Mariani about raising performance awareness inside organizations, the origins of the 'pit of success' API design philosophy from the C# CLR, and when software development shifted away from performance emphasis.
The interview addresses the organizational and platform-level dimensions of performance work, which are often harder to solve than the technical ones. Mariani's 'pit of success' concept, designing APIs so non-experts get good performance by default, remains directly relevant to anyone building developer platforms or internal tooling.
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Rico Mariani coined 'pit of success' while working on the C# CLR at Microsoft to describe API design that makes good performance the default outcome for non-experts.
The interview covers institutional questions: how to raise performance awareness in an organization, when a performance expert is most useful, and why the industry de-emphasized performance.
The conversation runs roughly an hour and a half and is published as part of Casey Muratori's Computer Enhance performance programming archive.
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