Author: Shawn Jackson
I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.
Optimization is a tricky thing to do, difficult to quantify and can have troubling impacts on your whole project. This doesn’t mean you should never optimize your code, workflows or any other part of your operation. Quite the contrary, you should, but take this article as a signpost warning of dragons. One should never attempt
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During periods of high activity on the Resgrid system NewRelic would send out a large amount of warnings due to excessive memory usage. This was great information but I didn’t know why we would have excessive memory usage without corresponding CPU to match. I like to design my API’s as stateless as possible and the
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I recently just built a new computer and during this process I decided it was time for a new monitor. My Dell U3011 was going on 4 years old and although I liked it very much, it wasn’t my favorite monitor. That distinction went to a 27” Dell monitor I had before the U3011. You
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