Thursday August 04, 2005
Thursday August 04, 2005 One of the side effects of working in a company that has as strong an email culture as Sun is that you rarely, if ever, get snail mail. It's so rare that I actually get any mail that it's a bit of an event when I get something actually useful and not just flyers for conferences etc . That made it all the more surprising this morning when I got a letter bearing the return address of a commander in the US Army.
Anyone who's ever met me will be happy to tell you that I don't really fit in the "Army of One" category, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not eligible for any form of draft (not since accidently (almost) sparking an international incident on the Irish border in my youth).
It turns out that when we were running the DTrace Challenge at Java One, our "DTrace Commando" Jarod did some work with a representative of the US army. Based on the recommendations Jarod made within *30 minutes*, they saw their application startup time drop from 20 seconds to 5 seconds, a *75% reduction*.
Unfortunately there's no medal but he did get an official letter of commendation, that's pretty cool, it's just a pity we didn't charge government contractor rates......
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