You log in to a Linux server with a performance issue: what do you check in the first minute?

At monday.com, we rely on Elasticsearch to meet various needs. It supports our clients’ search requirements across account entities, particularly on ...

Contribute to Aqua-Nautilus/CVE-Half-Day-Watcher development by creating an account on GitHub.

CSS content-visibility helps boost rendering performance by controlling whether or not an element renders its contents.

Learn how the Postman engineering team reduced costs and optimized the performance of the Chronicle system.

Your app’s networking directly affects the user experience of your app. Imagine having to wait a few seconds for the page to load. Or even worse, imagine waiting for a few seconds every time you perform an action. It would be infuriating! Before you go on a fixing adventure, it’s a good idea to understand what causes that waiting time. So let’s do that!

Fast loading web apps can be a key success factor in terms of user experience. However, improving the performance of a web app is not trivial, since i…

The Internet is the biggest machine ever built – and it has a huge impact on our environment. How can we as perf experts help make IT more sustainable? What would enable us to do more?

Learn how business decision makers and non-developers can improve Core Web Vitals.

Learn about the Speculation Rules API and how CDN Planet used this new browser technology to reduce Time to First Byte on its Cloudflare powered website.

The article, Analyzing Data 180,000x Faster with Rust, first presents some unoptimized Python code, and then shows the process of rewriting and optimizing the code in Rust, resulting in a 180,000x speed-up. The author notes:

Adventures in hacking Hermes VM’s C++ internals for fun and profit

Having access to a free reporting tool like Lighthouse in DevTools is a great start for diagnosing performance issues by identifying bottlenecks on the main thread. Even better are paid tools like [SpeedCurve](https://www.speedcurve.com/?utm_source=smashingmag&utm_medium=magazine&utm_campaign=sm7_2023&utm_id=sm7_2023&utm_term=sm7_2023) to dig deeper into the data for more targeted insights and to produce visual reports to help make a case for performance improvements for your team and other stakeholders.

Since its inception, Tailwind CSS has become a super popular way to style web projects. This time we will be taking a look at the architecture that powers it and what can be done to improve it.

Take a closer look at how various performance tools audit and report on performance metrics, such as core web vitals. Geoff Graham answers a set of common questions that pop up during performance audits.

In this post, we’ll talk about some of the ways we’ve scaled individual Discord servers from tens of thousands of concurrent users to approaching two million concurrent users in the past few years.

How to grow from one application to an ecosystem of apps and packages.

Discover how we made our browser extension faster. Find out about the technologies and strategies we used to improve performance and provide a smooth browsing experience.

This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.

Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from bo…

TL;DR: We analyse HTTP requests and SQL queries to find and block excessive and potentially abusive traffic. We look for ...

Page Weight chapter of the 2022 Web Almanac covering why page weight matters, bandwidth, complex pages, page weight over time, page requests, and file formats.

Previously, I tried to achieve my scalability requirements without using a cache-aside pattern to...

Streaming is inevitable. Out of order streaming is an underrated tech breakthrough.