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Ben Watson


Born
in Japan
June 24, 1980

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Computers & Internet


Ben Watson has been a software engineer at Microsoft since 2008. On the Bing platform team, he has built one of the world’s leading .NET-based, high-performance server applications, handling high-volume, low-latency requests across tens of thousands of machines for millions of customers. In his spare time, he enjoys geocaching, books of all kinds, classical music, and spending time with his wife and children. He is the author of the books Writing High-Performance .NET Code and C# 4.0 How-To.

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4 Lessons from a Life in Music: The Wisdom of John Williams

The Kennedy Center posted this short discussion with John Williams from June 24, 2022. I believe there are some valuable life lessons contained inside John’s responses to Deborah.

1. Mental and Physical Health are Prerequisites for Producing Great Work.

The stereotype of the crazy but inspired artist with a dissolute, unstable life have a kernel of truth, but I suspect that those cases tend to burn

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Writing High-Performance .N...
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C# 4.0 HowTo
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“It is very difficult to fix a poorly written application retroactively if it has a fundamentally flawed architecture from an efficiency perspective.”
― Ben Watson, Writing High-Performance .NET Code
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