Tag: Performance
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Nginx security. Control resources and limits.
Posted on October 27, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nginx is one of the best popular webservers today. Its popularity is due to the fact that it is very fast and easy to set up. Other side of this popularity - nginx is often being a target of malicious attacks. So, if your nginx is not limited by available resources, your server may totally "fall" when nginx spent all system resources. That's why you should control and limit resources Nginx consumed. By Vyacheslav Breus.
Tags servers web-development infosec performance
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NGINX performance tuning tips and optimization strategies
Posted on October 11, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Optimizing Nginx performance is essential to boosting the speed of your web applications. As one of the central elements in your web hosting control panel, the open-source web server, NGINX, delivers high-speed performance out of the box. You can significantly boost NGINX performance by making tweaks to its configurations. Check out the guide with practical techniques to help you achieve just that. By Nikita S.
Tags nginx performance servers web-development app-development
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How to optimize your code for performance: A focus on Python and beyond
Posted on October 1, 2023, Level advanced Resource Length medium
For the seasoned Python developer, the notion of performance optimization is a familiar landscape—fraught with challenges yet abundant with opportunities for innovation. While churning out Python code that 'works' is easy, crafting code that performs optimally is an art. By Maria Chojnowska.
Tags python performance app-development programming
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Code like a boss: Personal productivity for software engineers
Posted on September 24, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
The most effective and successful software engineers have one thing in common—they're personal productivity pros! The engineering field has distractions, competing priorities, growing to-do lists, too many meetings, and other sneaky time thieves. By Alyssa Towns.
Tags programming open-source miscellaneous performance software
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Build performance analysis for speeding up Xcode builds
Posted on August 15, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Build performance can be analyzed in Xcode to speed up your builds. This can quickly speed up your workflow and save a lot of time during the day for all developers working on the project. Slow builds often distract us as they enable us to focus on distractions like social media and Slack. By Antoine Van Der Lee.
Tags ios app-development web-development programming performance
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Learn Deno and go beyond Node.js
Posted on July 12, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Although Node.js remains the most-used server-side JavaScript runtime by a huge margin, alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun have garnered attention as they attempt to improve upon the Node.js concept. By Jeremy Holcombe.
Tags nodejs web-development app-development learning performance
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Top 10 ways to use Google Bard AI to amplify your productivity
Posted on July 11, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Golang was first released by Google in 2009 and, and since then, has gained widespread acceptance among developers due to its simplicity, concurrency, and performance. However, many years later, Go was suddenly forgotten as many users chose other languages like Java or Python for their projects. By Vy Le.
Tags google performance ai learning cio
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Golang performance: Go programming language vs. other languages
Posted on July 10, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
Golang was first released by Google in 2009 and, and since then, has gained widespread acceptance among developers due to its simplicity, concurrency, and performance. However, many years later, Go was suddenly forgotten as many users chose other languages like Java or Python for their projects. By Vy Le.
Tags web-development golang app-development performance programming
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How to implement chaos testing for your backend services using k6
Posted on July 7, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Testing is essential to ensure that your software application performs as expected. No doubt about it. But even if your application runs smoothly in a testing environment, unexpected incidents can occur in production, such as a crashed database or a lost connection to a third-party service. By Donald Le and Tomas Fernandez.
Tags app-development learning performance tdd devops
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How good is Elixir performance?
Posted on July 6, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Since then, it's been gaining popularity because it's highly scalable, reliable, and great for Microservices and Cloud Computing. By Alex Pedchenko.
Tags elixir web-development app-development erlang performance
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Qubit quest takes a topological turn
Posted on July 3, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google and Quantinuum bring a new, promising particle into the quantum computer road map. Two teams of researchers have used topology, a centuries-old field of mathematics, and a new kind of "quasiparticle" to come up with an error-correction technique for quantum computers that could leave others developed to date in the bin. By Margo Anderson.
Tags miscellaneous performance machine-learning data-science big-data
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Ericsson to WhatsApp: The story of Erlang
Posted on July 2, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this post, we're going to look at a piece of technology that was banned by the company that created it. It was kept alive by a small team of enthusiasts. Then, almost thirty years after its first development, it became the core technology underpinning one of the most important and lucrative startups of the 2010s. By Babbage.
Tags frameworks performance app-development elixir erlang functional-programming