April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 31m
English
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One of my friends recently had a problem where a particular part of the software he was implementing was very slow. Generally, when we have these types of performance issues, we suspect that an I/O interface is the cause (e.g., a connection to a database or reading or writing in a file). Remember from chapter 1 that such interfaces often slow down apps, so they are a likely suspect. But in my friend’s case, interfaces were not the issue.
The performance issue was caused by the simple generation of a random value (a universally unique identifier [UUID] stored in the database). The operating ...
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