In April 2016, I enrolled in my final module of the JCSE’s Continued Professional Development (CPD) programme. This year’s project was Big Data and Visualisation. Most of the groups opted for cloud-based computing platforms like Azure and Amazon in order to process their data. The group I was in, however, decided to go low-level and …
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The case for better I/O in ReSharper
So, this all began when I received a brand new Dell Latitude E6540 laptop for work, armed with 16Gb of RAM and a 500Gb spinning rust HDD. Oh, and all the drive contents are encrypted via McAfee, thanks to corporate security policies. After some use, (and one HDD failure), I noticed that the HDD was constantly …