• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Tbh, thanks to Wirth’s Law there’s a lot of unoptimized code out there. With the squeeze on hardware there’s incentive for developers to actually give a shit about making their software run well so they can maintain/build their userbase.

    Don’t get me wrong, the current hardware situation is bullshit, but there’s ways to minimize its impact on consumers

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      7 hours ago

      Thanks. I didn’t know that had a name.

      I hate wasting resources. The service i work on processes millions of transactions a month on a $14 AWS instance with spare capacity. Did I need to do that? No. But wherever we have performance issues I like to fix it before scaling the instance up. It was on the $7 instance for a while but 1GB memory wasn’t quite cutting it.