Explores how polymorphic code impacts performance in React and similar frameworks, focusing on JavaScript engine optimization challenges.
Columnstore Indexes are now available on the Standard Tier of Azure SQL Database, enabling better compression and performance for data warehousing.
Revisits the 'compressive images' technique for responsive web design, analyzing its modern relevance, performance trade-offs, and memory impact.
Introducing AstroImages.jl, a Julia package for visualizing astronomical images from FITS files.
Microsoft's new Azure Postgres offering goes GA, bringing high availability, compliance, and competition to the managed PostgreSQL market.
A technical guide on securing Kubernetes services using NGINX Ingress Controller, covering TLS setup, whitelisting, and rate limiting.
A former US Digital Service engineer shares two key lessons on government tech impact and the value of meaningful work, even when it risks burnout.
A guide to testing code that uses randomness or time by using dependency injection to make tests deterministic.
A guide to using the #PSHelp hashtag on Twitter for quick, informal PowerShell assistance, including a script to monitor the hashtag.
An analysis of Google AMP's performance, examining its speed in search results, as a standalone framework, and compared to canonical pages.
Exploring machine learning-driven bundling with Guess.js to optimize JavaScript chunk loading and improve SPA performance.
A practical cheat sheet of essential kubectl commands for daily Kubernetes cluster management and operations.
An article encouraging programmers to dive into and contribute to open source projects, even when they seem intimidating or unfamiliar.
A web developer reflects on a tech ethics conference panel and debates the controversial idea of requiring professional licenses for web developers.
A 2018 survey by OmniFaces on Java EE usage, Servlet containers, APIs, and the future of Jakarta EE, inviting community participation.
Explains Chebyshev's inequality, a probability bound, and its application to calculating Upper Confidence Limits (UCL) in environmental monitoring.
A technical tutorial on creating US maps with R, including Alaska and Hawaii as properly scaled insets using the sf and tmap packages.
A hands-on review of AppSwitch, a new networking abstraction layer for containers and hybrid environments, exploring its potential to simplify complex container networking.
Explores using pairwise composite likelihood to fit mixed models when survey sampling and model random-effect structures differ, using genetic analysis as an example.
A blog update explaining the author's absence, covering work on a management challenge, preparation for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, and plans for future content.
