Being a Sous Chef for a number of years taught me a lot about resource contention in real time systems, far more than I ever learned in the classroom although h

Being a Sous Chef for a number of years taught me a lot about resource contention in real time systems, far more than I ever learned in the classroom although having the knowledge base definitely helps. When you've allocating shared resources in a limited space frantically working with multiple other people during the rush, you really can see the algorithms at work and can learn to optimize and even come up with alternate algorithms solving these types of problems.