Tag: Performance
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Using Elixir and WhatsApp to fight COVID19
Posted on April 30, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Elixir enables companies to rapidly get a product to market with confidence that it can scale and handle considerable spikes in concurrent users. By Erlang Solutions.
Tags elixir web-development app-development learning erlang performance
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Revolutionizing Java with GraalVM Native Image
Posted on April 23, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
GraalVM has caused a revolution in Java development since it launched three years ago. One of the most discussed features of GraalVM is Native Image, which is based on an ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. By Alina Yurenko and Karsten Silz.
Tags java programming kotlin jvm scala performance
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Optimizing AWS Lambda function performance for Java
Posted on April 3, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This blog post shows how to optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions written in Java, without altering any of the function code. It shows how Java virtual machine (JVM) settings affect the startup time and performance. You also learn how you can benchmark your applications to test these changes. By Benjamin Smith and Mark Sailes.
Tags apis performance app-development serverless web-development java
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How Firebase Performance Monitoring optimized app startup time
Posted on March 19, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Mobile users expect their apps to be fast and responsive, and apps with a slow startup time, especially during coldstart, can leave them feeling frustrated. By Viswanathan Munisamy.
Tags cloud android monitoring web-development performance performance ios
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How Firebase Performance Monitoring optimized app startup time
Posted on March 19, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Mobile users expect their apps to be fast and responsive, and apps with a slow startup time, especially during coldstart, can leave them feeling frustrated. By Viswanathan Munisamy.
Tags cloud android monitoring web-development performance performance ios
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A complete guide to distributed tracing
Posted on March 18, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Distributed tracing helps you track requests across services and understand issues affecting your application performance. In distributed cloud architecture, debugging performance issues is complicated. By Ankit Anand.
Tags cloud programming agile monitoring web-development servers performance
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How to manage an underperformer remotely
Posted on February 26, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Love it or hate it, working remotely is likely to remain a reality for some time to come. A fairly common challenge, now that people have had time to settle into new workflows, is that more employees may be struggling to keep up. By Lolly Daskal.
Tags performance agile learning management career
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What web frameworks solve and how to do without them
Posted on February 2, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this article, Noam Rosenthal dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost. By Noam Rosenthal.
Tags frontend frameworks javascript app-development performance
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Search indexing best practices for top performance (with code samples)
Posted on January 22, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Every search interface relies on a fast back-end data-indexing process that keeps its search results up to date in as timely a manner as possible. But search indexing is only one side of the coin. The other side is the real-time speed of a high-quality relevant search engine. By Peter Villani.
Tags performance nodejs javascript nosql app-development
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Async Rust in practice: Performance, pitfalls, profiling
Posted on January 17, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A few weeks ago, an interesting issue appeared on our GitHub tracker. It was reported that, despite our care in designing the driver to be efficient, it proved to be unpleasantly slower than one of the competing drivers, cassandra-cpp, which is a Rust wrapper of a C++ CQL driver. By Piotr Sarna.
Tags programming performance software-architecture cio how-to
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How we saved 70k cores across 30 mission-critical services
Posted on January 15, 2022, Level advanced Resource Length long
As part of Uber engineering's wide efforts to reach profitability, recently our team was focused on reducing cost of compute capacity by improving efficiency. Some of the most impactful work was around GOGC optimization. In this blog we want to share our experience with a highly effective, low-risk, large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning mechanism. By Cristian Velazquez.
Tags how-to microservices performance devops app-development agile
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How we built a VS Code extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript
Posted on January 14, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
We'll talk through our design decisions in building the extension, and along the way we'll touch on the Language Server Protocol and, more generally, how an IDE extension works. By osohq.com.
Tags app-development open-source programming code-refactoring software performance