Articles by Tag #performance

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Architecture Patterns for Beginners: MVC, MVP, and MVVM

Building software can be complex. You might not have to think much about it when building your side...

Learn More 260 6Dec 27 '24

The Code Review That Changed Everything

Three months ago, I submitted what I thought was a perfectly reasonable pull request. I had created a...

Learn More 96 18Oct 20

Tracking down high memory usage in Node.js

In this article, I will share my approach of tracking down and fixing high memory usage in...

Learn More 170 5Dec 14 '24

24 Front-end Performance Optimization Tips

Performance optimization is a double-edged sword, with both good and bad aspects. The good side is...

Learn More 101 9Apr 1

Actually Agile: Against Performance Theater in Software Development

"You're not a Certified Scrum Master? Then you can't possibly understand." I've heard this too many...

Learn More 42 25Oct 30

Preloading the DEV (and Forem) home feed and sidebar for substantial performance benefits

When you visit the homepage of dev.to, the page itself is cached on the edge so that it's delivered...

Learn More 53 1Oct 3

Downsize your JavaScript: Mastering Bundler Optimizations

Introduction Over the past 15 years, the JavaScript ecosystem has expanded rapidly,...

Learn More 66 15Dec 17 '24

The Real Reason Developers Hate Meetings (It’s Not Time) 🧠💥

Was this post written during a long, pointless meeting? Of course not! …Or was it? 👀 Let’s start...

Learn More 59 41Nov 7

How React Compiler Performs on Real Code

The article follows the content and the structure of the talk I gave at "React Advanced"...

Learn More 50 7Dec 12 '24

Why I Stopped Using React (And You Should Too) 🔥

The framework that promised to simplify everything just made my codebase a...

Learn More 99 43Aug 18

React 19.2 Just Dropped: What Actually Matters (My 3-Week Production Test)

October 1st, 2025. React 19.2 lands on npm. I read the release notes over morning coffee. By...

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Fighting Framework Jank (What's Not in the Docs)

Is your React app feeling slow? Stop blaming the framework and use your browsers APIs like template and requestIdleCallback to fix that UI jank.

Learn More 9 1Nov 12

How to clean your virtual server (VPS)

Introduction Are you in the same situation as me, running out of space on your Virtual...

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Building a Fast Web Scraper Without Puppeteer: A Live Coding Challenge

How I built a production-grade scraper for NC public notices using Cheerio and TLS fingerprinting...

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🚀 15 SQL Query Optimization Techniques for Blazing Fast Performance

Efficient SQL queries are the backbone of high-performing applications. Poorly optimized queries can...

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Streaming Large Files Between Microservices: A Go Implementation

Efficient Large Data Transfer Between Microservices (Go Demo) This project provides a...

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How does React Native's New Architecture affect performance?

What is the New architecture? React Native's new architecture was introduced in version...

Learn More 91 7Feb 6

⚛️ Controlled vs Uncontrolled Components in React – A Deep Dive

When building forms in React, you’ll inevitably come across controlled and uncontrolled...

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When a “Small” AI Model Pushes Your Hardware to Its Limits

While building my ConversaAI web app, I started experimenting with a local AI model using Ollama,...

Learn More 15 8Nov 21

🔥 Simulating Course Schedules 600x Faster with Web Workers in CourseCast

This is the story of how I made a Monte Carlo simulation of student schedule assignments 600x faster with web workers. In this article, we'll discuss how I upgraded CourseCast (a course schedule simulator for the Course Match system of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) from a prototype that struggled with a hundred concurrent users (with ~60 seconds per simulation request) to an infinitely scalable simulator with sub-second execution speeds (faster than a page load!).

Learn More 6 5Aug 21

Optimizing heavy operations in Vue with Web Workers

Heavy computations on the main thread can lead to sluggish UI, dropped frames, and poor user...

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Stop Doing Business Logic in Webhook Endpoints. I Don't Care What Your Lead Engineer Says.

Yesterday at 1pm I'm on a call with a payment provider's tech team. We're integrating their IPN...

Learn More 10 9Oct 31

Comparing Page Transition Strategies in Next.js: A Performance Study

In the era of modern web development, we often ask ourselves: what's the best way to navigate between...

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Efficient Laziness at Scale: The Agile Team I Never Needed

It was never there. And if it had been, I’d have dissolved it on day one. How I run my mega...

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Hetzner Servers Benchmarks

I wanted to quickly compare how different Hetzner servers are doing (especially in single-threaded),...

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nvoc - linux OC/UV cli utility for RTX-50 series

https://github.com/martinstark/nvoc/ I got tired of having to create multi-line scripts for applying...

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Cron Jobs vs Real Task Schedulers: A Love Story

Hey folks. I know, I know, another long post. But if you've been following along, you know I only...

Learn More 10 1Nov 25

ClickHouse: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

ClickHouse is one of those databases that everyone gets excited about after their first benchmark....

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How I Performance Optimised My Next.js App

So I recently went down a bit of a rabbit hole optimising my Next.js app, and honestly? It was crazy....

Learn More 11 2Oct 25

How We Achieved Up to 71% Faster Email Search with PostgreSQL Full-Text Search

Overview By migrating our email system's search functionality from traditional LIKE...

Learn More 6 0Nov 25