How Kestra Improved Orchestrator Performance Across 14 Releases: A Year of Performance Engineering
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Summary
Kestra's engineering team details their year-long performance engineering journey across releases 0.19 to 1.3, treating performance as an ongoing discipline rather than a one-time project. The article covers systematic improvements through benchmarks, profiling, database optimization, and iterative code refinement to make the orchestrator faster, leaner, and more scalable.
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Over the past year, the Kestra engineering team has shipped performance improvements in every single release between 0.19 and 1.3.
The cumulative impact
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