Explores performance-friendly techniques for creating flexible, animatable shadows in responsive web design, comparing CSS box-shadow and filter approaches.
A technical analysis of performance optimizations in the .NET Wire serialiser library, using BenchmarkDotNet to measure the impact of each change.
A developer advocates for writing less code to improve performance, reduce maintenance, and create a better user experience, with practical tips.
A developer re-evaluates inline CSS and internal stylesheets, testing performance benefits and challenging common front-end best practices.
Explains Ahead-of-Time (AoT) compilation in Angular, covering its benefits over Just-in-Time (JiT) compilation for performance and efficiency.
Optimizing Django Admin performance for large-scale applications by addressing common issues like the N+1 query problem and database load.
Explains changes to the BI Server cache behavior in OBIEE 12c, focusing on the new OBIS_REFRESH_CACHE logic.
A guide to optimizing Vagrant performance for Symfony development on Windows, covering plugin installation, PHP7 setup, and cache/log configuration.
A curated list of insightful programming blogs covering topics like JVM internals, performance, ML, engineering culture, and computer architecture.
Gnocchi 2.1 release introduces dynamic resource types, performance improvements, and Ceph backend optimizations.
A technique for lazyloading resources like iframes and CSS using <noscript> tags to ensure progressive enhancement when JavaScript is unavailable.
Explains the CSS `contain` property, its values, and use cases for optimizing web performance by isolating DOM sub-trees.
A developer explains why they switched from icon fonts to SVG for web icons, citing performance, accessibility, and maintainability benefits.
A deep dive into using BenchmarkDotNet to analyze memory allocations and performance differences between string concatenation and StringBuilder in C#.
An introduction to the Zig programming language, exploring its design goals of pragmatism, performance, safety, and readability compared to C.
An in-depth exploration of how the .NET Garbage Collector works internally, focusing on its low-level mechanisms and design goals.
Explains why sampling profilers fail at debugging tail latency and introduces Google's event tracing framework as a solution.
A technical guide on implementing a Service Worker in WordPress to enhance performance and enable offline functionality, including troubleshooting tips.
A review of the author's top five most-read blog posts from 2015, covering web standards, client-side frameworks, performance, HTTPS, and Google's AMP.
A technical guide on using Linux Control Groups (cgroups) to limit memory usage for specific processes, demonstrated with OBIEE and stress testing.
