Jul 292007
 

I’ve got a real challenge for you. Write a poem on Areae without divulging any secrets, directly at least.

Well, more of a poem about what I spent some time thinking about at work last week…

Network Optimization

Packet size, packet size, info little lump,
This coded, that coded, TCP’ed and dumped.
    Piling into buffers, stacking up the K,
Header bettered, ack lettered, MD5ed in clumps.

Metrics march, events arch, tallying the toil,
Adding tag, another tag, to running tallies coiled.
    Graphs and means and peak machines,
Linked lists, map inserts, cauldron bubble boil.

Pixel bobble, bubble wobble, choke the data down!
Another bar, three sorts so far, infoviz may drown.
    Watch the python nybble tail, log files swell the mail.
Second sampled average trampled, occasioning a frown.

The buckets pause, optimal lost; packets stay for free.
Bottom line, too many lumps of data with your tea.
    Machinery in motion, gears a-clank and potent,
Guzzle not, and thirst not, you cramp your buffered belly.

Packet size, packet size, info little lump,
This coded, that recoded, TCP’ed and dumped.

  7 Responses to “The Sunday Poem: Network Optimization”

  1. https://www.raphkoster.com/2007/07/29/the-sunday-poem-network-optimization/ *groan* Ode to Geekdom indeed. My favorite line: “Linked lists, map inserts, cauldron bubble boil.”

  2. 😀 You’re a certified nerd bard!

    Have you been discussing protocols lately or something? What was the inspiration?

  3. Don’t sugar code it, Raph! 😀

  4. You know.. oddly enough, I can relate! Incredibly geeky, yet.. hits so close to home. =)

    Cheers!

  5. Raph must be lurking somewhere here in our office, because that poem mirrors the state of my brain (and most of my team’s) at the end of the week last week 🙂

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