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> You're living in a bubble working at the NYSE; few employers have needs that are time-sensitive enough to be measured in microseconds, nor do most employers h
by kator 14y ago
> You're living in a bubble working at the NYSE; few employers have needs that are time-sensitive enough to be measured in microseconds, nor do most employers have billions of dollars being exchanged every second.
Not true, I can think of several areas where latency and performance matter:
1) Graphics firmware
2) Audio/Video Real-Time transcoding, transformation etc.
3) Mobile
4) Wireless/Networking Gear etc.
I've personally written systems that have to respond in 10ms to 3.5 Billion queries with 45k qps spikes.. They're are lots of places performance matters.
- mgkimsal 14y agorelative to the large expanse of employers who don't have those needs? that's still a small base. I didn't say those jobs didn't exist.
- huhtenberg 14y ago+1 for networking firmware - like the one that goes into routers, firewalls, load-balancers and some such. So I'd try places like Juniper, Cisco, Redback, etc.