This is the February monthly meeting. Normally some of us go on to the pub afterwards.
Writing software can become painful very quickly when you run into
performance issues, and it is all too easy to blindly optimise a
program without analysing it first to pin down where the issues are.
Rob McAdoo will demonstrate several techniques for measuring resource
usage and running time to show you just where to focus your
optimisations.
Rob is a senior software engineer at Genomics plc
(www.genomicsplc.com), a startup company that uses genetics to
transform drug development and improve healthcare. He works on their
analysis platform, creating data pipelines and services that enable
robust, reliable, and scalable data analysis.
The talk is 30 minutes long followed by questions and discussion.
Afterwards, we will break into groups to try our hand at profiling
some open source python programs (we will have some suggestions to
choose from of varying complexity). Pizza will be provided!
