[HN Gopher] How to Solve Google's Billion-Dollar Productivity Pr...
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       How to Solve Google's Billion-Dollar Productivity Problem
        
       Author : dont__panic
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-09-12 20:04 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | This book is regular reading in business schools (they have a
       | whole shelf of them on short-term loan at the B-school library
       | across the street from me)
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)
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       | but the concepts go against the intuition of everyone in
       | business.
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       | For instance imagine a business process where work arrives at a
       | station in a random Poisson process and takes a certain time t to
       | complete. If the station is busy the work gets added to a queue.
       | 
       | You might think this system has a capacity of 1/t (100%
       | utilization) but if you actually try that you'd find that the
       | length of the queue becomes infinite. Put enough steps like this
       | in a system and the whole system throughput will go to zero.
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       | Up to 60-70% utilization the length of the queue will not become
       | excessive so an idle percentage of 30% is good to aim for. Try to
       | get it much less than that and you will find the system as a
       | whole becomes unproductive.
        
       | lupire wrote:
       | This article has nothing to do with Google nor ita non-exist
       | "Billion dollar productivity problem" and just says that
       | engineers engineering will magically fix everything.
        
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