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Full client-side rendering in SPAs can still hinder the searchability of a site, especially for large-scale web services. By paying attention to 'render budget', owners of large-scale web services can help Google index their pages.

Recommendations for implementing logic and rendering in apps.

Understanding what drives the rising capabilities of AI is important for those who work to forecast, regulate, or ensure the safety of AI. Regulation…

Two chapters from the book Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo

Resumability is a faster alternative to Hydration. Defining Hydration is so broad and fails to be useful as it includes non-server-rendered applications.

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Ignoring all the other advantages messaging has, they’ll ask us the following question: “But isn’t RPC faster than messaging?” In place of RPC, 1 they may…

Single-page applications present some unique challenges for measuring and optimising core web vitals, here we review the key optimisations you should be making for your SPA

Let’s look at some more technical and non-obvious aspects of optimising Largest Contentful Paint

Optimizing Postgres's Autovacuum for High-Churn Tables

Optimizing the performance of eBay’s sites and apps for a faster user experience.

Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.

Prompt Engineering, also known as In-Context Prompting, refers to methods for how to communicate with LLM to steer its behavior for desired outcomes without updating the model weights. It is an empirical science and the effect of prompt engineering methods can vary a lot among models, thus requiring heavy experimentation and heuristics. This post only focuses on prompt engineering for autoregressive language models, so nothing with Cloze tests, image generation or multimodality models.

An introduction to the six most common accessibility errors, and how to fix them.

Crazed developer attempts real ecommerce without front-end JavaScript to prove that y’all playin’

My blog is something of a trophy case of mine. Like a hunter who hangs the antlers of a stag on their wall, every time I solve a technical problem, I feel…

The consulting firm came up with a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and we offer a more sensible approach.

Today, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is releasing the standard for Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, a novel standard of communication

In this multi-part blog series, I will describe some microservice security design patterns to implement micro-segmentation and deep inspection in your Kubernetes cluster

By Jennifer Shin, Tejas Shikhare, Will Emmanuel

How to monitor replication lag in PostgreSQL? What is replication lag? And how to best go about monitoring PostgreSQL replication in general?

When I started thinking about writing a post about web font loading my intention was to propose relatively sophisticated ideas that I've...

Want to implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)? Follow this tutorial to implement MFA using Redis Cache and OTP in your applications.

We'll dive into multithreading in Node and discuss some potential pitfalls.

In this post, I'll share 3 SEO case studies from different industries, explaining precisely how I achieved results.

Misko shares a view on reactivity in Javascript web apps. Uncover how reactivity works today and what its path forward might be.

Thorough explanation of how to choose between CSR, SSG, SSR, or ISR based on your use case.

This post is an exploration of the supply and demand of GPUs, particularly Nvidia H100s.

Learn JavaScript design and performance patterns for building more powerful web applications.

Why are internal links to topic hubs such a powerful SEO tactic for publishers? Here I explain the details and provide some best practices.