An introduction to Causal Profiling with Coz, a technique that identifies which code optimizations will have the biggest impact on overall program performance.
Explores improvements in Gnocchi's timeseries database storage, focusing on data splitting and compression techniques for better performance.
A technical guide on dramatically speeding up iSCSI PowerShell cmdlets by using the -ComputerName LocalHost parameter to avoid network timeouts.
Gnocchi 1.3.0, the final Liberty cycle release, introduces performance improvements, async metric deletion, and a new dedicated website.
Strategies for managing and optimizing the OBIEE BI Server cache to improve dashboard performance and data accuracy.
A developer explores creating a web performance heatmap to visualize when specific page elements render, building a proof-of-concept tool for analysis.
A guide to improving performance, scalability, and cost for web applications, covering CDNs, sessions, load balancing, and object storage.
Explains how to optimize SQL Server performance and reduce costs on Microsoft Azure using flexible IaaS configurations and storage strategies.
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.
