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I don’t always optimise, but when I do, I optimise the bottleneck

Everybody loves to optimise.  Everyone loves hearing that we shaved 14 hours off process x.  The problem is if process x isn't the bottleneck it doesn't matter.  It looks great in reports when you talk to how time was saved in this part of the process, or reduced the number of people required at this stage of the process.  It doesn't always mean that the process itself has been optimised.

What is Distributed Computing?

There is an increasing demand in the world for compute power. With recent advances in technology, the popularity of distributed systems to answer this problem is becoming more viable. 

In this post, I will describe Distributed Computing, why it is used, how it works and a few examples of how it is applied in business and scientific research.