by Derek Souers on
Modified:
Wrote a small app, when the room hit 78°F, X10 turned on the fan. Saved $120/year.
War Stories: From The Front
They often say 'Business Is War', here are some of my battles with entrenched legacy systems, bad processes and more. Real problems. Real fixes. No buzzwords.
30% Faster Demand Insight
by Derek Souers on Modified:
*Timken · ASP.NET 2.0 → 3.5 · SQL Tuning*
Upgraded award-winning Demand Insight app. Shaved load times across app + DB query time.
Result:**InformationWeek Top 20 app** kept running smoother than ever.
The Day I Fired My Pager – MQ monitoring, follow-the-sun ops
by Derek Souers on Modified:
*PTPlace.com · WebSphere MQ · .NET*
*More coming: stay tuned.*
At 3 a.m., the beeper screamed. Queue depth: 32. Again.
I built a .NET monitor and website that:
- Polled MQ every 30s
- Displayed live depths
- Auto-alerted India team at threshold
Result: 100% reduction in overnight wake-ups. Sleep restored.
*More coming: stay tuned.*