974 articles on Performance.
Meet our new workshops on front-end and UX — on web performance, interface design, psychology and modern CSS. With Lea Verou, Harry Roberts, Stephanie Eckles, Dan Mall and so many others. [Jump to all online workshops ↬](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/)
Why and how you can optimize your context provider's value to avoid performance issues
With so many great tools available, there really shouldn’t be any excuse for not testing with users these days. It is fast, easy and cheap. But we don’t even need to limit ourselves to testing. These tools also make user research and visualization easier than ever before, making them ideal all the way from discovery through prototype to post-launch optimization. Our lives as UI designers have neve
There’s a new version of the search endpoint available in the Dropbox API. The new version is faster, supports more file types, and has many useful features.
Shipping a new data-centric product is hard, and under tight time constraints it's even harder. Here are 4 tips that are proven to help you ship new products fast.
With mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic these days, leaving your mobile performance unoptimized isn’t really an option. In this article, we’ll discuss the complexity and challenges of mobile, and how mobile testing tools can help us with just that.
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re building it with.
How Shopify’s Test Infrastructure team was able to reduce the p95 of Shopify’s core monolith CI from 45 minutes to 18.
The PostgreSQL query planner doesn't know which data usually correlates. How to use CREATE STATISTICS to find correlations.
We take developer productivity pretty seriously at Slack. It’s multi-faceted, spreading across build speed, reliability, modernity, and more. One thing we really pride ourselves in is using the latest build tools when possible. Not necessarily bleeding edge (alphas, betas, RC, etc.), but the latest stable versions. Aside from the new features and improvements they bring,…
To find the best execution plan PostgreSQL is relying on statistics to give the optimizer an indication of what to expect.
Adding video to your application can increase customer engagement and satisfaction. But the exact opposite can occur when there are issues with the video playback: video stalls are frustrating and drive customers away. In this article, Doug Sillars will walk you through the steps to optimize the video on your website to ensure fast playback and reduce stalls.
How to use checkpoints and checkpoint tuning, and how PostgreSQL writes data, database internals explained.
Memory allocator is an important part of the system, so choosing the right allocator for a workload can give huge benefits. Here is a story of how we decreased service memory usage by almost three times.
Last week, we described how we improved the deployment experience for github.com. When we describe deployments at GitHub, the deployment experience is an important part of what it takes to ship applications to production, especially at GitHub’s scale, but there is more to it: the actual deployment mechanics need to be fast and reliable.
Day 50: Building some tarballs for puzzles, and trying to make a kernel boot faster
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
Day 49: making the VMs boot faster
This article covers scaling advices for PostgreSQL and explains why it may be a good idea to keep it simple on the database side.
In this episode, we’re talking about Web Performance. What does the performance landscape look like in 2021? Drew McLellan talks to expert Harry Roberts to find out.
Discover 10 expert Next.js tips including redirects, rewrites, preview mode, API routes, and performance optimizations to boost your development workflow.
In this article, we’ll take a close look at some of the changes we made on this very site — running on JAMStack with React — to optimize the web performance and improve the Core Web Vitals metrics. With some of the mistakes we’ve made, and some of the unexpected changes that helped boost all the metrics across the board. Hopefully, this little case-study will be useful to you, and perhaps there ar
Catch up on what’s been cookin’ at Smashing and explore some of the most popular community resources featured in our newsletter over the past few weeks. Spoiler: there are also new workshops, front-end & UX audits and truly smashing podcast episodes. This article covers pretty much everything you need to build fast experiences on the web today — from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques and
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016.
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist, with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and CSS/JavaScript techniques.
Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. The easiest way
@derrickstolee recently discussed several different git clone options, but how do those options actually affect your Git performance? Which option is fastest for your client experience? Which option is fastest for your build machines?…
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that…
We are rolling out a new video calling library to all the relevant products across our apps and services, including Instagram, Messenger, Portal, Workplace chat, etc. To create a library generic enough to support all these different use cases, we needed to rewrite our existing library from scratch using the latest version of the open […]
Implementing best SEO practice can produce immediate results, but long-term performance requires long-term maintenance. Besides, the journey is more important than the destination, isn’t it? The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). This is not an exhaustive list, but hopefully there is enough to help you
There was a time when I felt overwhelmed by how fast the web developed. It seemed like not a single day passed without a new plugin, framework, technique, or
Today we announce $40M in new funding to help everyone build the next web. Next.js and Vercel help teams collaborate and move faster with greater flexibility.
On December 16, 2020 we held Shipit! presents: Performance Tips from the Storefront Renderer Team. A video for the event is now available for you to learn more about how the team optimized this Ruby application for the particular use case of serving storefront traffic. Click here to watch the video. By Celso Dantas and Maxime Vaillancourt In the previous post about our new storefront rendering eng
The Web Performance Calendar just started up again this year. The first two posts so far are about, well, performance! First up, Rick Viscomi writes about the
By Mikko Haapoja and Stephan Leroux 2020 Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) is over, and another BFCM Globe has shipped. We’re extremely proud of the globe, it focused on realism, performance, and the impact our merchants have on the world. The Black Friday Cyber Monday Live Map We knew we had a tall task in front of us this year, building something that could represent orders from our one million m
Insight into the tools Shopify uses to raise confidence in our ability to serve large sales events, as well as the experimentation and regression framework built to ensure that we’re getting better, week-over-week, at handling load.
Some baby bear thinking from Katie Sylor-Miller:
Announcing a Free Tier for Workers KV that opens up global, low-latency data storage to every developer on the Workers platform.
Using the brotli dictionary to improve compression of web content without sacrificing performance.
TL;DR — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. Based on Python and Apache Beam, helps our teams process Spotify’s massive catalog of music and podcasts, faster and more efficiently. We think Klio’s — and its ability to let anyone leverage modern cloud infrastructure and tooling — has the potential to unlock new possibilities in media and ML research
vip-manager is a simple to use tool to handle service IPs in a PostgreSQL Patroni cluster | PostgreSQL High Availability Cluster
Using deferred compliance in GitHub’s CI process to improve developer productivity.
There are hundreds of Figma plugins available as of today, yet the Figma plugin search functionality is pretty basic and at times it can be very difficult to find the right plugin for a certain task. Today, Abel Hancock will take you into an in-depth look at several plugins that can speed up your design workflow. **Note**: *This article is aimed at user interface designers who use Figma on a daily
Shopify’s Online Store provides greater flexibility to build themes representing the brand of a merchant’s online store. However, like with any programming language, one often writes code without being aware of all the performance impact it creates. Whether it be performance impact on Shopify’s servers or observable performance impact on the browser, ultimately, it’s the customers that experience
Just the other day, Jeremy Keith wrote that problems with performance work isn’t only a matter of optimization and fixing code, but also tackling people
In the newest version of GitHub for mobile, we’re shipping a bunch of features that make code review easier, faster, and more productive.
How can you convince your clients to make a faster (and easier) buy-in? Better serving citizens means improving a frustrating website experience — the primary way Californians access necessary services. With the help of a guided design exercise, Kelly Schummer explains how the *Design Shopping* workflow can help guide you throughout the design phases.
Edge networks present a significant opportunity for Artificial Intelligence (AI) performance and applicability. AI technologies already make it possible to run compelling applications like object and voice recognition, navigation, and recommendations.
