Best of Performance — January 2024
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Lobsters·2yThe perfect web framework
This post discusses the pillars of a perfect web framework, including a content-first core, world-class design, motherf**king fast performance, consistent MPA+SPA experience, instant development loop, easy scalability, sub-second deploy times, universal template, and built-in cloud services.
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Community Picks·2y
How I'm Writing CSS in 2024
CSS in 2024 has become easier and more powerful with support for container queries, nesting, and other exciting features. This post discusses the state of CSS, recommendations for optimizing CSS performance, and different CSS styling solutions available in 2024.
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Medium·2y
Performance Best Practices in Flutter
Flutter is a UI toolkit for building fast, beautiful, natively compiled applications. It is important to optimize performance in Flutter by using stateless widgets, avoiding unnecessary widget rebuilding, using keys for performance optimization, using async and await instead of then(), avoiding costly tasks, minimizing the use of opacity and clipping, avoiding deeply nested widget hierarchies, using the Flutter DevTools for performance monitoring, and avoiding blocking the main thread.
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Why UUID7 is better than UUID4 as clustered index
This post discusses the differences between UUID version 4 and UUID version 7 as clustered indexes in a database. It explores the pros and cons of using UUIDs instead of sequential IDs and explains why UUID version 7 was faster than UUID version 4. The experiments and results are presented, along with an explanation of index locality and buffer pool in relation to the performance differences.
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Tech stack rebuild for a new Facebook.com
Facebook.com underwent a complete rebuild of its tech stack to improve performance and user experience. The improvements included reducing CSS, code-splitting JavaScript, modernizing data-fetching, and implementing faster navigation. The redesign is gradually rolling out to all users.
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ThePrimeTime·2yYou dont know OOP
This post explores various aspects of object-oriented programming (OOP) and addresses common criticisms and misconceptions associated with it. It highlights the importance of encapsulation, discusses the use of Getters and Setters, and compares performance between different programming paradigms. The author also emphasizes the need for practicality and simplicity in programming.
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asayer·2y
Enhancing Performance with React Query's Caching
Learn how React Query's caching feature can enhance performance by reducing unnecessary server requests. Understand the concepts of cacheTime and staleTime, and how to adjust them to meet the needs of your application. Improve user experience by customizing data query needs and decreasing load times.
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AWS in Plain English·2y
4 Places Where You Can Cache Your Data to Optimize Your System
This post explores different caching strategies, their benefits, and challenges in maintaining data integrity. It discusses client-side caching, CDN caching, remote cache using Redis, and database caching. It emphasizes the importance of striking a balance between performance optimization and data accuracy.
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The New Stack·2y
Where Does the Time Go? Rust’s Problem with Slow Compiles
Rust's slow compile times have been a frequent complaint among the community. The Oxide team investigated the issue and discovered various factors that contribute to slow compile times in Rust. They found specific tools and techniques to optimize compile times, although more work needs to be done.
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Awesome Go·2y
High performance caching with Redis and Go
The post discusses the need for high performance caching in web applications built with Go and introduces redjet, a Redis library that supports memory-efficient streaming. It highlights the limitations of popular Go libraries in terms of memory usage and presents benchmarks comparing redjet with other libraries.
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LogRocket·2y
Angular signals vs. observables: How and when to use each
Angular signals and observables are both used for handling asynchronous operations. Signals are simpler to use and are best for UI and component logic, while observables provide more power and flexibility but have a steeper learning curve. Signals should be considered for making a UI responsive and reactive.
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4 Billion If Statements | Prime Reacts
The article discusses the use of if statements in programming, the modulus operator, and the tradeoff between time and memory. The author explores the idea of checking if a number is odd or even using comparisons and shares their experience with implementing the algorithm in different programming languages. They encounter drawbacks with large numbers but manage to overcome them with a unique approach.
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How the PostgreSQL optimizer works to speed up queries
This post explains how the PostgreSQL optimizer works and highlights some important techniques it uses to speed up queries, such as constant folding, function inlining, join optimization, join order determination, join pruning, and optimized sorting for ORDER BY.
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