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I Blame Microservices

Programming Backend Algorithms Webdev Frontend

9 months ago 248.5K views 0 shares

I Blame Microservices

THE AUDACITY! Watching an exam website take FOUR WHOLE MINUTES to grade a simple multiple choice test while your programmer brain is screaming that this should take NANOSECONDS! It's like watching paint dry while holding a blow dryer! Those 40 clock cycles could have graded the test, calculated your entire academic future, AND solved world hunger with processing power to spare! Meanwhile, the server is probably just playing Solitaire between each question it grades. The betrayal! The inefficiency! The sheer WASTE of precious milliseconds that you'll never get back! 💀

No Cycle Left Behind

Hardware Programming Algorithms C++ Debugging

1 year ago 405.4K views 2 shares

No Cycle Left Behind

Regular developers measure performance in milliseconds or microseconds because that's what modern tools show them. Meanwhile, the true optimization psychopaths are counting individual CPU clock cycles like it's 1982. They're the ones rewriting entire functions in assembly just to save 3 cycles in a loop that runs twice a day. The difference between "fast enough" and "I need to know exactly how many nanoseconds each instruction takes."