Tag: Performance
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How to use metacognition skills to remember 90% of what you read
Posted on June 16, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Reading a lot of great books improves our knowledge, judgment and mental models. But many people rarely engage with the content of their books. By Thomas Oppong.
Tags learning management cio performance miscellaneous
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Improving workforce performance through digital transformation
Posted on June 15, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Improving your workforce performance is probably one of the biggest priorities for all executives and business owners. When your team's productivity is up, everything else is expected to be just as high in performance. By Thomas Jones.
Tags agile performance management cio startups
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Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison
Posted on June 10, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
CSS-in-JS has taken a solid place in front-end tooling, and it seems this trend will continue in the near future. Especially in the React world. By Tomas Pustelnik.
Tags css frontend javascript web-development ux performance
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Extreme HTTP performance tuning: 1.2M API req/s on 4 vCPU EC2 instance
Posted on May 25, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance. For the purposes of this recreated quest, we will ignore most of the dead ends and dark alleyways that I had to struggle through on my solo expedition. By Marc Richards.
Tags performance aws devops json programming cloud apis
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Why you should not use webpack
Posted on May 9, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Webpack is one of the most popular bundlers around today. Tons of production apps and frameworks, such as Next.js, Create React App, and more, use it for bundling and building. Additionally, it has the largest library of plugins out of any bundler. However, times have changed since Webpack's inception, and now it is not the best tool for lots of cases. By AsyncBanana.
Tags nodejs javascript performance containers cicd
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Flow efficiency: Powering the current of your work
Posted on May 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
How can we be more efficient? What's holding us back from delivering great customer value, sooner? By Sonya Siderova.
Tags management cio miscellaneous agile teams performance
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Running scaled retrospectives
Posted on May 6, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A scaled retrospective provides the chance to expand scope of improvements beyond the individual team. By Colleen Johnson.
Tags agile management cio performance teams
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Trapped on technology's trailing edge
Posted on April 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
We're paying too much to deal with obsolete electronic parts. Keeping aging systems on their feet is a daunting and resource-intensive task. By Peter Sandborn.
Tags miscellaneous servers cio management performance
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PyTorch – How to apply Backpropagation with Vectors and Tensors
Posted on April 19, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
In Machine learning, a backpropagation algorithm is used to compute the loss for a particular model. The most common starting point is to use the techniques of single-variable calculus and understand how backpropagation works. However, the real challenge is when the inputs are not scalars but of matrices or tensors. By Strahinja Stefanovic.
Tags python data-science big-data learning iot miscellaneous performance
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Tackling Java cold startup times on AWS Lambda with GraalVM
Posted on April 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Have you ever tried running a Java application on AWS Lambda? Well, even the simplest Java application takes significant time to start up at first. The reason behind is simple. AWS has to prepare a runtime environment for your application when it executes the first time. This is called cold-start. By Arnold Galovics.
Tags java performance programming learning containers software-architecture
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In-depth dive into security features of Intel/Windows platform secure boot process
Posted on April 7, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
This blog post is an in-depth dive into the security features of the Intel/Windows platform boot process. In this post I'll explain the startup process through security focused lenses, next post we'll dive into several known attacks and how they were handled by Intel and Microsoft. By Igor Bogdanov.
Tags infosec cio cloud miscellaneous learning performance
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Initialization strategies with Testcontainers for integration tests
Posted on February 24, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Testcontainers offers several initialization strategies for our Docker containers when writing integration tests. Depending on the Docker image we use for our tests, we might have to perform additional setup steps. By Philip.
Tags programming tdd java performance devops