How do we make our programs faster? How do we make anything faster? My first co-op job was working in packaging. They had a small Industrial Engineering library and let me read from it at work. The first book I read changed my life and my way of thinking about problem solving: The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Just about every time I work on performance, it’s impossible for me to not make comparisons to The Goal in my head. In this post, we’ll look at some stories from the book and how they apply to performance tuning in programming.

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