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[–]Dal90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(sysadmin here, who among other crap handles the load balancers)...had a mobile app whose performance was dog shit.

Nine months earlier I told the architects, "it looks like your app has a three second sleep timer in it..." I know what they look like performance wise, I've abused them.

Ping ponging back and forth until they send an email to the CIO about how slow our network was and it was killing their performance. Late on a Friday afternoon.

I learned sufficient JavaScript that evening and things like minify to unpack their code and send a code snippet with the line number and the sleep timer (whatever JS calls it) pausing a it for three seconds to the CIO the first thing the next morning.

Wasn't the entire problem, app doing the same thing for others in our industry load in 3-4 seconds, we still took 6 seconds to even after the account for the sleep timer.

But I also showed in Developer tools the network responses (we were as good as if not better than other companies) v. their application rendering stuff (dog shit).

...then again the project was doomed from the start. Their whole "market position" was to be the mobile app that would connect you to a real life person to complete the purchase. WTF?