Explains how the .NET Garbage Collector pauses threads at safe points to perform collection, detailing the suspension mechanism and TTSP.
A guide to optimizing Angular app bundle size for production, covering tree-shaking, minification, and build tools to reduce from 1.4MB to under 50KB.
A developer explains why using their personal website as a live testing playground for new techniques and optimizations is a valuable learning tool.
Explores benchmarking tools and techniques using a Stack Overflow code example, focusing on performance optimization and avoiding allocations.
An introduction to Causal Profiling with Coz, a technique that identifies which code optimizations will have the biggest impact on overall program performance.
A technical guide on dramatically speeding up iSCSI PowerShell cmdlets by using the -ComputerName LocalHost parameter to avoid network timeouts.
A developer explores creating a web performance heatmap to visualize when specific page elements render, building a proof-of-concept tool for analysis.
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.
