Over the past six months, Pulumi's Platform Team has been working on a project called "Amazing Performance" to enhance the throughput and latency of the Pulumi CLI for all users. This initiative involved identifying both significant and minor improvements, with a detailed tracking issue on GitHub. The blog post introduces the tools developed for performance monitoring, such as an analytics dashboard with benchmarks and OpenTracing support, which help identify performance bottlenecks and set service-level objectives (SLOs). Two quick performance wins are highlighted: dynamically importing TypeScript only when necessary, reducing boot time by 300ms, and optimizing lease renewal for the Service backend, saving an additional 120ms. These adjustments aim to make the Pulumi CLI more responsive and efficient, with further posts in the series promising to detail more significant performance advancements.