Reduce how often something runs and the amount of work it does when it does run. Sometimes, things are done too often, or process unnecessary data.I once had a project where a SAP system was crawling and literally causing company-wide stoppages. We found a job that literally ran every minute of every day and it processed a table that contained a few thousand tasks. This was something that could be done once per hour, and only during business hours. Furthermore, it was re-processing thousands of ...