A developer announces joining Akamai's developer relations team to focus on web performance research, experiments, and standards.
A concise guide to modern web performance optimization, outlining key technical recommendations for improving site speed and user experience.
A technical guide on using basket.js to asynchronously load module-specific JavaScript from local storage for better web performance.
A developer details how they dramatically improved their static blog's load time by optimizing JavaScript and CSS loading.
A guide to improving Drupal site performance by identifying and removing unused modules to reduce memory footprint and optimize server response.
Introduces Shoestring, a lightweight JavaScript DOM utility that helps reduce code bloat by offering a modular, jQuery-like alternative.
A guide on safely adding NOT NULL columns in PostgreSQL without downtime, by breaking the migration into multiple steps.
Analyzes Stack Overflow's performance-first engineering culture, including trade-offs like skipping unit tests for speed and building custom servers over cloud hosting.
Highlights of the scikit-learn 0.15 release, including performance improvements, new features, and deprecations.
Explains how HdrHistogram's .NET port controls class field layout to minimize overhead for low-latency performance measurement.
Explores performance optimization techniques from the Roslyn compiler codebase, focusing on minimizing garbage collector work through allocation avoidance and object pooling.
A technical guide on using Fiddler to analyze and optimize Azure storage traffic for a high-traffic application like MyGet.
A technique using static Google Maps for performance, with JavaScript to enhance them to dynamic maps on user interaction.
Explores how to define 'fast enough' for website performance, covering competitive analysis, user perception, and key metrics like Speed Index.
Explains why PyPy's JIT compiler makes test suites slower than production code, and why tests are poor benchmarks for performance.
Discusses the nuance in web development advice, using responsive images as an example of why 'your mileage may vary' (YMMV).
A performance comparison revisiting Numba vs. Cython for optimizing a pairwise distance array computation, using updated libraries and benchmarks.
A collection of practical tips and guides for effective indexing in PostgreSQL, covering unused indexes, costs, and performance considerations.
Introduces proftable(), an improved R profiling function that displays detailed call stacks and line numbers to identify performance bottlenecks.
Explains how to fix Django's default per-request database connection behavior to improve performance via connection pooling.
