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Why software fails and how you can practically address it with a six-step plan

My colleagues recently wrote a great post on the Netflix tech blog about a tough performance issue they wrestled with. They ultimately diagnosed the problem as false sharing, which is a performance…

Back of the napkin math to estimate what cloud software will cost as you're building it.

I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a lot of potential frustration!

Building a concurrent web server in Rust, Go, JS, TS, .NET, and Java to compare concurrency performance

There’s still a lot of misunderstanding about CWV for SEO. Let’s work it out together.

Crawl optimization should be a priority for any large site. By tracking, monitoring and focusing Googlebot you can gain an advantage over your competition. It's important to start with the basics. What exactly is crawl budget?

This article will provide an overview on database architectures, including use cases and pros and cons for each of them.

This is a comprehensive guide, packed with best practices and expert insights about proper deployment, to master the art of seamless database migrations.

The Next.js App Router introduced new heuristics around caching and revalidating. To ensure we’re all discussing the intended behavior of how caching is designed to work, I thought it would be help...

This article on SQL vs NoSQL will demistrify the differences between these backend databases, and also dicusses the differences between MySQL and MongoDB.

Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI.

Rendering optimizations that come naturally.

Frontend pull requests often contain common mistakes. Avoid them with this list of 7 small (but crucial) rules.

The logic behind Bézier Curves used in CSS animations and visual elements.

Written from scratch, DazzleSpy is the latest advanced piece of Mac malware.

The React Graph Gallery displays hundreds of charts made with React, always with explanation and reproduciible code

Embedding Yjs and Automerge into Postgres for collaborative applications.

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Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.

A deep dive on composition in React. Learn key principles for designing and building reusable components that scale.

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

Details on how React rendering behaves, and how use of Context and React-Redux affect rendering

Learn everything you want to know about logging. Go from basics to best practices in no time.

useReducer is an often forgotten, but extremely powerful, hook in React. It can replace many cases you might be using useState, with a number of advantages.

An in-depth look at the successor to JSON Web Tokens: PASETO.