Startup culture has conditioned the industry into putting up fake landing pages to learn if anyone clicks Buy.

It's nice to know early on whether an idea gets traction. But this also encourages developers to sell vaporware and ship out unfinished products.

Profiling help spot performance regressions and bottlenecks in larger systems. But it can become a crutch you lean on. It won't help pick a better algorithm or streamline the data layout. It can't magically weed spaghetti out of the inner loop.

That's when you have to flex your brain muscle. Restructure the code or rewrite it with performance in mind. An eye for simplicity and a willingness to cut through geological layers of abstractions will improve things.
Staring at a flame graph won't!

If you live in Montreal and like fun programming puzzles, join us for our daily meetups ending December 12.

Montréal: Advent of Code Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/montreal-advent-of-code-meetup

New meetup in Montreal to practice your programming chops:
https://meetup.com/montreal-advent-of-code-meetup/

This is an in person meet for those who want to tackle the algorithmic puzzles on http://adventofcode.com. These come around holiday time with one challenge each day from the 1st to the 12th of December.

Feel free to join our evening meetups at any point during those dates. Have fun!