Tag: Performance
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Comparison of 3 programming languages for a full-fledged next-generation sequencing tool
Posted on June 6, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
Study done by Pascal Costanza, Charlotte Herzeel and Wilfried Verachtert for new implementation language for elPrep. elPrep is an established multi-threaded framework for preparing SAM and BAM files in sequencing pipelines. To achieve good performance, its software architecture makes only a single pass through a SAM/BAM file for multiple preparation steps, and keeps sequencing data as much as possible in main memory.
Tags programming java golang performance
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How to remove unused CSS from your website
Posted on May 30, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Dan Englishby describing how to go about clearing CSS files. A cascading style sheet can gradually build up into a bulky file over time. This means two things, your CSS file is messy, and it's unnecessarily bigger.
Tags how-to css programming performance
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Progressive Enhancement: Respecting web browser preferences in a post ES6 world
Posted on May 28, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Jaime Rios is an author of this intro into Progressive Enhancement (PE).
Tags performance frontend web-development
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NGINX structural enhancements for HTTP/2 performance
Posted on May 27, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
The blog post from pen of Nick Jones published on cloudflare.com. It is about experience of his team which deals with features related to: TCP, QUIC, TLS and Secure Certificate management, HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. They were responsible for implementing the Enhanced HTTP/2 Prioritization product.
Tags nginx performance web-development
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Improving third-party web performance at the Telegraph
Posted on May 5, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
Written by Gareth Clubb this article is about improving the performance of the telegraph frontend. Improving the performance impact of third-party scripts on a website takes time; results won't come overnight, but by being patient and chipping away slowly, eventually these efforts will be rewarded.
Tags web-development performance how-to frontend javascript
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How to set an ideal thread pool size in Java
Posted on April 29, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Anton Ilinchik is author of this post on Zalando site. We all know that thread creation in Java is not free. The actual overhead varies across platforms, but thread creation takes time, introducing latency into request processing, and requires some processing activity by the JVM and OS. This is where the Thread Pool comes to the rescue.
Tags programming java performance
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COBOL and the enterprise business programming paradigm
Posted on April 4, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
COBOL is nearly 60 years old. Jonathan Sayles examines how COBOL is still used today and it is not going anywhere soon. Besides that "As many as 75% of all rewrite projects have resulted in failure" and with the redoubtable Reuters reported that when Commonwealth Bank of Australia replaced its core COBOL platform in 2012, it took five years -- and cost $749.9 million.
Tags programming miscellaneous oop performance servers
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From 46s to 5s -- Optimizing a 350 Line Raytracer in Rust
Posted on March 8, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
An interesting article by Carl Fredrik Samson about his journey with Rust. He started with porting some code from a familiar language, C# or C++ in this case. But if you just port the code you will probably miss some of the features that makes Rust special.
Tags programming software performance
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Structurae: Data structures for high performance JavaScript
Posted on February 3, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Maga D. Zandaqo published an article about high performant data structures in JavaScript. After author's last attempt to speed up a Node.js server by replacing some JavaScript with a native addon yielded less than exciting results, he has decided to collect and share some common structures he uses to optimize my JavaScript code: structurae.
Tags web-development programming javascript performance
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Good engineering practices while working solo
Posted on February 1, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Shalvah about time when you got to go it alone and how do you make the most out of it. And while much of product development involves being able to manage or work with the rest of the team, it's equally important to develop good practices while working solo.
Tags teams performance devops miscellaneous
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Comparing JVM performance; Zulu OpenJDK, OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, GraalVM CE
Posted on January 15, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Comparison article by Maarten Smeets in which he tries to help you to choose the best Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for your project. There are many different choices for a JVM for your Java application.
Tags jvm java performance devops programming
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10 MySQL database tuning tips for peak workloads
Posted on November 17, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Folks from MariaDB wrote this article in which they collated 10 MySQL tuning tips for peak workloads. As we head into the holiday season and the start of a new year, now is a great time to ensure your database is ready for whatever comes its way.
Tags mysql database performance