Into the World...Here She Comes
My daughter Caroline, I’m proud to say, will be born in less then 3 days. It's been quite an anguishing nine plus months waiting for her arrival. But what's three days in the scheme of things? Well three days is 72 hours...it's 4,320 minutes...most importantly it's 259,200 seconds. By the time you finish this blog, it will be 259,140 seconds until she arrives.
My wife and I are what you would call impatient people. We hate surprises and most of all we hate to wait longer then the prescribed waiting period for whatever given context we are waiting on. So imagine the pain and frustration we have gone through in waiting for our daughter.
Did you notice I not only told you we are expecting a daughter, but that her name will be Caroline? Well, this is part of our impatience mantra. We found out that Caroline was a girl the first chance we had a legitimate sonogram. We had names picked out well in advance. I believe my wife had narrowed down the list to Caroline and Not Caroline if it was a boy weeks leading up to the sonogram.
We announced her name to the world as soon as we were sure it was a girl. I believed we announced her name so that I personally could get her name straight before she arrived. My wife, Jenny, announced her name boastfully so that no other expecting mothers would claim the name before Caroline's birth.
Seven-seconds is my view into the world of software performance from the eyes of an impatient pragmatist. I have to confess that I am a practicing software performance engineer for a commercial software company. I've been a practicing perfeng for about eight years and vigilant about software performance for roughly ten plus years.
I believe all things software should take less then seven seconds. I'm not foolish in my thoughts, as I am well aware that some things just take longer. What I am really talking about is response time perception by an individual. Seven seconds is a long time. Counting to seven brings us that much closer to Caroline's arrival. Only 259,147 seconds to go.
My wife and I are what you would call impatient people. We hate surprises and most of all we hate to wait longer then the prescribed waiting period for whatever given context we are waiting on. So imagine the pain and frustration we have gone through in waiting for our daughter.
Did you notice I not only told you we are expecting a daughter, but that her name will be Caroline? Well, this is part of our impatience mantra. We found out that Caroline was a girl the first chance we had a legitimate sonogram. We had names picked out well in advance. I believe my wife had narrowed down the list to Caroline and Not Caroline if it was a boy weeks leading up to the sonogram.
We announced her name to the world as soon as we were sure it was a girl. I believed we announced her name so that I personally could get her name straight before she arrived. My wife, Jenny, announced her name boastfully so that no other expecting mothers would claim the name before Caroline's birth.
Seven-seconds is my view into the world of software performance from the eyes of an impatient pragmatist. I have to confess that I am a practicing software performance engineer for a commercial software company. I've been a practicing perfeng for about eight years and vigilant about software performance for roughly ten plus years.
I believe all things software should take less then seven seconds. I'm not foolish in my thoughts, as I am well aware that some things just take longer. What I am really talking about is response time perception by an individual. Seven seconds is a long time. Counting to seven brings us that much closer to Caroline's arrival. Only 259,147 seconds to go.
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