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A Perfect example of pointless benchmarks

Graeme Pietersz — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:20:55 GMT

The developers of a web framework written in Apple's Swift language have a set of benchmarks that (surprise, surprise) shows that their framework, modified to use a new (now newish) async library is faster than everything else. Apart from the the usual dangers of micro-benchmarks, there is a lot wrong with the tests.

Automate deployment - even for small systems

Graeme Pietersz — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:02:17 GMT

One of the clients who I have been working for in the last few weeks has far more automated deployment than the others. It makes a huge productivity difference. This was not only because it was one of two server migrations I did, although that did make the difference starker, it was the continual time savings.