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My generator was an island of mystery in my home data pool. The Overview When we moved to Northern Michigan, loosing power was not an option. While I was not working from home as much back then, my wonderful Wife made it very clear that she would not be going cold in the great artic winters we have. “Duly noted,” I said, and when our home was built, I ensured that we buried the power lines up our winding driveway and installed a 22kw Generac generator. I dusted off my hands and called it a day. Success! ...

One of our design philosophies at Blueprint Power is that you don’t spend too much time optimising code early on but instead focus on writing maintainable code with maintainable languages. More often than not, I have watched teams concentrate on picking the fastest language or improving the processing by some percentage instead of defining a solid data model and design pattern for the code. This hunch has served me well throughout the years. More often than not, by the time the performance bottleneck impacts you if your teams have been writing documented code in a readable language, it is easy enough to profile and optimise those areas that need it. For every performance landmine you find, there are at least a hundred you missed by focusing on this philosophy. ...