Ask HN: What is your go to performance optimization?
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 ...
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