Tag: Performance
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JVM Profiler: open source tool for tracing distributed JVM applications at scale
Posted on October 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Bo Yang, Nan Zhu, Felix Cheung, Xu Ning from Uber Engineering team published blog post about JVM Profiles. Data is at the heart of strategic decision-making process at Uber. Right sizing the resources allocated to Spark applications and optimizing the operational efficiency of Uber data infrastructure requires fine-grained insights about these systems, namely their resource usage patterns.
Tags programming java distributed miscellaneous monitoring queues performance streaming
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Setting up a reverse-proxy with NGINX and docker-compose
Posted on July 28, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Dominik Weber tutorial how to set up reverse-proxy with NGINX, which can then handle server-related aspects, like SSL and caching, completely transparent to the application behind it. It is good practice in general to not make internal services public-facing that don't have to be.
Tags nginx how-to performance web-development performance
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Reduce JavaScript payloads with tree shaking
Posted on July 25, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Jeremy Wagner neat article about reducing the JavaScript in modern web applications. JavaScript is often compressed when sent over the network, meaning that the actual amount of JavaScript is quite a bit more after the browser decompresses it.
Tags performance javascript frontend
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Comparing AWS Lambda performance of Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Go
Posted on March 10, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Yun Zhi Li -- VP of Engineering APAC at continoHQ -- wrote this article as a reaction to comparison of lambdas done in previous year by Yan Cui. He noticed that despite AWS adding more languages to lambda runtime, old languages were not neglected. In the article he reviewed and updated runtime performance benchmark of all five programming languages supported by AWS Lambda.
Tags serverless aws performance apis
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Resource Hints - What is Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect?
Posted on January 30, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Brian Jackson good article xploring current resource hints and directives which can be another great way to boost the performance on your website or web application.
Tags performance css frontend web-development miscellaneous
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How Load Speed Impacts User Focus Time: Analysis of 83,828 Sessions
Posted on January 24, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jack Maden (and team) created series of articles in which they summarize the key findings of our extensive data science report on load time. While part one looked at bounce rate, and part two focused on page count, this post summarizes their findings regarding focus time.
Tags frontend performance