Perf Profiling Baseline: Measure Before You Optimize — and Keep pprof Off the Wire

Phase-0 profiling harness via go test -cpuprofile/-memprofile; Rule 75 forbids networked pprof on unauthenticated listeners. The baseline proved stdlib SHA-256 already uses AVX2.

🏛 ARCHITECTURE•PERFORMANCE•August 26, 2026•3 min

Seams, Not Plugins: A Fast Path That Stays Concrete

Adaptive behaviors use compile-time Go interface seams injected at decision points — not dynamic plugins. The fast path stays concrete; the trust core stays auditable; policy is declarative.

🏛 ARCHITECTURE•GOVERNANCE•August 26, 2026•3 min

⚡ Bolt: 1000 → 16 Allocations in S3 ListObjectsV2 XML

S3 ListObjectsV2 XML serialization dropped from ~1000 allocations to 16 per op via inlined time formatting and a pre-allocated escape buffer.

🐞 ISSUE FIX•PERFORMANCE•August 24, 2026•4 min

⚡ Bolt: Zero-Allocation and Hot-Path Engineering

The Bolt mindset codified: no heap escapes in hashing/encoding, deadline amortization cuts SetDeadline ~98%, allocation hotspots hunted by profile. Teaches: zero-escape patterns, measurement contracts, trade-off posture.

🏛 ARCHITECTURE•PERFORMANCE•August 12, 2026•7 min