Yeah this whole process took 2 years in-between usual work. This article was testing the waters to see if people are interested and for direction where to focus followup articles.
Future areas of focus could be: diving into modern numa architecture, how to set expectations of hw perf limits, network architecture, pros/cons of S3 vs object in terms of perf.
But it’s good to know there are ways to get much more perf out of it.