Best of Performance — December 2021

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   Hacker News·4y

   HTTP/3 is Fast

   HTTP/3 is a new version of the HTTP protocol. It uses a new protocol called QUIC. QUIC is meant to address the head-of-line blocking issues with HTTP/2. The benchmarks show that the new protocol is much faster than the old one.

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   asayer·4y

   React 18 - What's New and How it Will Benefit Developers

   React18 is the latest iteration of the framework, and it is geared at reducing the amount of code you need to write. In this release, it is moving to a functional paradigm where data is immutable. This will require some changes for developers but it should improve the performance and functionality of your applications.

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   Article

   Flutter·4y

   What’s New in Flutter 2.8

   Flutter 2.8 is the final stable release of the year. It includes significant performance improvements in both the engine and in Flutter DevTools. There are also new Firebase features and improvements, WebView 3.0, a new batch of Flutter Favorite packages and a raft of updates to desktop.

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   Stack Overflow Blog·4y

   Best practices can slow your application down

   The Stack Overflow team is re-publishing its top ten posts for the year. In this article, we walk through the choices we made and the tradeoffs they entailed. With more than a decade of history to reflect on, we examine why best practices aren’t always the best choice for particular projects.

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