Re: Goodbye 32-bit, WiFi Calls
Rocki Stenger
During our road trip, I was slammed with work, and the Travelwifi device was a godsend. It kept me connected, meaning that I could write blog posts, send invoices, and catch up on my email all while on the road.
We took the Travel wifi from the West Coast of Canada, all the way to the center of Canada in Manitoba, plus a road trip through most of New Hampshire and then back home again. All in all, it was well over 50 hours of total driving time.
Travelwifi says that speeds will slow after you use up your plan amount (1GB, 3 GB, or 5 GB) on 4G plans in a 24 hour period. We found that our data speeds were still strong after using up our plan limit, but yours may vary.
After you use up your data limit, Travelwifi says your connection speed is throttled to a maximum of 256 kbs. At that speed you can still do social media, email, and light browsing. Your connection speed will return to normal the next day.
Other countries are much cheaper. Getting a Travelwifi shipped to the USA costs only $8.00 for standard shipping. You can even pick up and drop off your Tep Wireless at some airports in France, the UK, and Mexico for free.
Listening to call recordings of calls with long handling times, is the best way to spot this, as ACD stats would show the advisor as on a call, whereas they could be just waiting for their lunch break or checking something on their phone.
Nia, the thing about ducking out at the last minute is that you are giving that call to another person on your team. I was on a team where I consistently got the last call 9 out of ever 10 nights. Everyone would get out, leaving those last few calls to come in. I was on a call so I would have 3 or 4 calls in queue just for me while everyone else left. I would be there an extra 30 minutes. If everyone had shared the work, we would all be done at a reasonable time even if a few minutes later.
They will remain in the idle queue while their colleagues take calls over them, even though they are next in line! it simulates that they are not skilled for that style of call or have lower priorities.
It took quite a bit to get through. That was a bit annoying. It took several calls to get through. Kept leaving answer phone message, and nobody got back but eventually we, you know, we were playing telephone tag.
The interviews with physiotherapy managers highlighted that the unpredictable number of calls in each PhysioDirect clinic session made it difficult to manage the service. However, the physiotherapy managers did report, at the end of the trial, that they were overseeing this aspect of the service better:
Two of the physiotherapy services (out of the four that participated in the trial) carried on using the PhysioDirect service after the trial ended, but importantly both changed the way in which the service was offered and operationalised. The main difference was in how they managed patient referrals and calls into the service. In the amended services, GP referrals were screened by a physiotherapist and then, depending on the MSK problem and length of the local waiting list for physiotherapy, the patient was sent a letter inviting them to call the PhysioDirect service or they were put on a waiting list for face-to-face care. For example, patients with shoulder pain problems were viewed by physiotherapists as needing to be seen in traditional face-to-face consultations and so these patients were not given the choice of PhysioDirect but listed for face-to-face care, whereas those with back or lower limb problems were viewed as suitable for PhysioDirect and were automatically routed to physiotherapy via that pathway:
By essentially changing PhysioDirect to a call-back service only, the two sites that carried on using PhysioDirect did so in a way that enabled them to better predict the number of people ringing into the service. They did this through taking calls from patients and arranging convenient call-back times for the physiotherapist to contact the patient later, essentially using PhysioDirect only as a call-back service. Despite these changes, they still faced some challenges in predicting how many patients they could assess in 1 day.
And the other challenge was when we totally overloaded the system and had about 20 calls in one day and only one physio. Well, it wasn't that bad but it really overloaded the system and so, managing the right capacity and demand was quite difficult.
Multiple calls to require('foo') may not cause the module code to beexecuted multiple times. This is an important feature. With it,"partially done" objects can be returned, thus allowing transitivedependencies to be loaded even when they would cause cycles.
When the code in the foo package does require('bar'), it will get theversion that is symlinked into /usr/lib/node/foo/1.2.3/node_modules/bar.Then, when the code in the bar package calls require('quux'), it'll getthe version that is symlinked into/usr/lib/node/bar/4.3.2/node_modules/quux.
In order to make modules available to the node REPL, it might be useful toalso add the /usr/lib/node_modules folder to the $NODE_PATH environmentvariable. Since the module lookups using node_modules folders are allrelative, and based on the real path of the files making the calls torequire(), the packages themselves can be anywhere.
Below are some addon patterns to help you get started. Consult the onlinev8 reference for help with the various v8calls, and v8's Embedder's Guidefor an explanation of several concepts used such as handles, scopes,function templates, etc.
This event is emitted when node empties it's event loop and has nothing else toschedule. Normally, node exits when there is no work scheduled, but a listenerfor 'beforeExit' can make asynchronous calls, and cause node to continue.
Adds a listener to the end of the listeners array for the specified event.No checks are made to see if the listener has already been added. Multiplecalls passing the same combination of event and listener will result in thelistener being added multiple times.
The enter method is plumbing used by the run, bind, and interceptmethods to set the active domain. It sets domain.active and process.domainto the domain, and implicitly pushes the domain onto the domain stack managedby the domain module (see domain.exit() for details on the domain stack). Thecall to enter delimits the beginning of a chain of asynchronous calls and I/Ooperations bound to a domain.
The exit method exits the current domain, popping it off the domain stack.Any time execution is going to switch to the context of a different chain ofasynchronous calls, it's important to ensure that the current domain is exited.The call to exit delimits either the end of or an interruption to the chainof asynchronous calls and I/O operations bound to a domain.
Buffering in Readable streams happens when the implementation callsstream.push(chunk). If the consumer of the Stream does not callstream.read(), then the data will sit in the internal queue until itis consumed.
In busy processes, the programmer is strongly encouraged to use theasynchronous versions of these calls. The synchronous versions will blockthe entire process until they complete--halting all connections.
Asynchronous realpath(2). The callback gets two arguments (err,resolvedPath). May use process.cwd to resolve relative paths. cache is anobject literal of mapped paths that can be used to force a specific pathresolution or avoid additional fs.stat calls for known real paths.
In particular, checking if a file exists before opening it is an anti-patternthat leaves you vulnerable to race conditions: another process may remove thefile between the calls to fs.exists() and fs.open(). Just open the fileand handle the error when it's not there.
Since most requests are GET requests without bodies, Node provides thisconvenience method. The only difference between this method and http.request()is that it sets the method to GET and calls req.end() automatically.
If given a sandbox object, will "contextify" that sandbox so that it can beused in calls to vm.runInContext or script.runInContext. Inside scripts runas such, sandbox will be the global object, retaining all its existingproperties but also having the built-in objects and functions any standardglobal object has. Outside of scripts run by the vm module, sandbox willbe unchanged.
In general, greater memory usage options will mean that node has to makefewer calls to zlib, since it'll be able to process more data in asingle write operation. So, this is another factor that affects thespeed, at the cost of memory usage.
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