Ljubljana, Slovenia

Cpu

Tue, Mar 26, 2013

Optimization strategy

Sometimes it's not about just optimizing CPU time away. Looking at the details I could optimize away a badly written SQL query along with some more trivial big-O problem in regard with sorting of video clips which I got out of serialized data. All from a few carefully placed calls. Reducing network bandwidth is just as important as CPU time.

The capacitor plague and wasted hardware

After being involved in computers for around 15 years now, every once in a while I experience one common occurrence and that is the failing of hardware. It's been a few weeks since I had a failed disk. It's been this week that I realized that three monitors died at our office in the last few years. Hardware seems to be dieing more recently than not. It's a shame a lot of components seem to be usable, but are usually being discarded along with perfectly functioning hardware.