Tag: Performance
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Build a tree-shaking utility in JavaScript
Posted on September 23, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A guide with clear instructions how to build your own "dead code" remover in JavaScript. By Chidume Nnamdi.
Tags javascript web-development programming performance
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Managing hundreds of millions of orders with Table Store
Posted on September 16, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This article discusses how Table Store can help you store and manage massive amounts of data by using a fictional e-commerce platform as an example.
Tags sql database performance how-to cloud
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How to bounce back from rejection
Posted on August 13, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
When someone rejects you, it helps to remember that there's another you. By Adam Grant.
Tags miscellaneous learning management performance teams
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7 optimization techniques in React
Posted on July 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Ogundipe Samuel wrote this piece about optimization in React. One key factor for positive user experience is speed e.g. how much time a user has to wait to first see contents from your website or application.
Tags programming javascript performance
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Comparison of 3 programming languages for a full-fledged next-generation sequencing tool
Posted on June 6, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
Study done by Pascal Costanza, Charlotte Herzeel and Wilfried Verachtert for new implementation language for elPrep. elPrep is an established multi-threaded framework for preparing SAM and BAM files in sequencing pipelines. To achieve good performance, its software architecture makes only a single pass through a SAM/BAM file for multiple preparation steps, and keeps sequencing data as much as possible in main memory.
Tags programming java golang performance
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How to remove unused CSS from your website
Posted on May 30, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Dan Englishby describing how to go about clearing CSS files. A cascading style sheet can gradually build up into a bulky file over time. This means two things, your CSS file is messy, and it's unnecessarily bigger.
Tags how-to css programming performance
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Progressive Enhancement: Respecting web browser preferences in a post ES6 world
Posted on May 28, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Jaime Rios is an author of this intro into Progressive Enhancement (PE).
Tags performance frontend web-development
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NGINX structural enhancements for HTTP/2 performance
Posted on May 27, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
The blog post from pen of Nick Jones published on cloudflare.com. It is about experience of his team which deals with features related to: TCP, QUIC, TLS and Secure Certificate management, HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. They were responsible for implementing the Enhanced HTTP/2 Prioritization product.
Tags nginx performance web-development
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Improving third-party web performance at the Telegraph
Posted on May 5, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
Written by Gareth Clubb this article is about improving the performance of the telegraph frontend. Improving the performance impact of third-party scripts on a website takes time; results won't come overnight, but by being patient and chipping away slowly, eventually these efforts will be rewarded.
Tags web-development performance how-to frontend javascript
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How to set an ideal thread pool size in Java
Posted on April 29, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Anton Ilinchik is author of this post on Zalando site. We all know that thread creation in Java is not free. The actual overhead varies across platforms, but thread creation takes time, introducing latency into request processing, and requires some processing activity by the JVM and OS. This is where the Thread Pool comes to the rescue.
Tags programming java performance
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COBOL and the enterprise business programming paradigm
Posted on April 4, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
COBOL is nearly 60 years old. Jonathan Sayles examines how COBOL is still used today and it is not going anywhere soon. Besides that "As many as 75% of all rewrite projects have resulted in failure" and with the redoubtable Reuters reported that when Commonwealth Bank of Australia replaced its core COBOL platform in 2012, it took five years -- and cost $749.9 million.
Tags programming miscellaneous oop performance servers
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From 46s to 5s -- Optimizing a 350 Line Raytracer in Rust
Posted on March 8, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
An interesting article by Carl Fredrik Samson about his journey with Rust. He started with porting some code from a familiar language, C# or C++ in this case. But if you just port the code you will probably miss some of the features that makes Rust special.
Tags programming software performance