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Scott Hanselman

What Scott Hanselman thinks about software performance

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Scott Hanselman has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingWhen a system's performance problem seems mysterious, you eventually have to stop testing the suspected component and isolate other layers instead.

    Their wordsThe useful lesson isn't "disable LSO." It was that when storage is mysteriously slow, eventually you have to stop testing storage.

    ↗Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabitsfeeds.hanselman.com

  2. 4 days earlier

  3. Our readingPerformance-related command-line flags represent qualitative changes to restartability, buffering, or concurrency, not levels on a continuous performance dial.

    Their words/Z, /J, and /MT are not levels on a performance slider. They change restartability, buffering, and concurrency.

    ↗Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel, and Surprising Performance Trapsfeeds.hanselman.com 1st of 2 in this piece