Notes from a Pinterest performance team talk on building a dedicated team, custom metrics, regression fighting, and optimization strategies.
A curated collection of popular and useful CSS snippets for responsive design, text selection, clearfix, box-sizing, and modern layouts.
Explains the ASP.NET Core middleware pipeline, how it processes requests and responses, and how to configure it using Use and Run methods.
A technical walkthrough of setting up a virtual lab using Veeam SureBackup for testing software updates in an isolated environment.
A technical guide on setting up Debezium and Kafka Connect to stream real-time data changes from MySQL into Apache Kafka.
Argues for decentralized, open-source social platforms as the solution to privacy exploitation by centralized tech giants like Facebook and Google.
Guide on granting non-admin users read-only access to Service Endpoints in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for secure deployments.
A guide to creating view-models in MVVM applications that automatically handle UI thread dispatching, making them independent of specific dispatcher implementations.
A guide to researching and understanding the internal workings of the .NET Runtime, from defining a topic to debugging the source code.
Discusses the proposal to lower p-value thresholds in statistical analysis, arguing it addresses symptoms not root causes of unreliable research.
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.
