974 articles on Performance.
From a user’s profile picture to other media assets, data collection and storage to cloud services through file uploads have become an essential feature for most modern applications. Today, Nwani Victory will show you how to file uploads that can be implemented in a GraphQL application. This article will be beneficial to developers who are interested in or considering using Google Cloud Storage fo
Making the Stripe Dashboard faster for creating payments, managing subscriptions, sending invoices, and other common workflows.
New developer guides for the Dropbox API are available for OAuth, File Access, Sharing, Extensions, Team Files, Team Administration, Performance, Error Handling, and Detecting Changes.
zero-config edge caching and optimizations for improved performance for WordPress. Reduce WordPress plugin burden.
We're partnering with the Google Chrome team to bring Web Vitals measurements into Browser Insights. Web Vitals are a new set of metrics to help web developers and website owners measure and understand load time, responsiveness, and visual stability.
Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time collaboration between clients.
We continue to believe what we started Cloudflare believing 10 years ago: the Internet itself is a force for good worth fighting to defend. We need to keep striving to make the Internet itself better — always on, always fast, always secure, always private, and available to everyone.
Firewall Rules lets customers filter the traffic hitting their site, powered by our Wirefilter engine. We’re excited to share some in-depth optimizations we have recently made to improve the performance of our edge.
GitHub’s mobile applications have used GraphQL to power new features. We’ve now been able to move faster and get more done with less hassle and no over-fetching. We were able…
As you probably know, a single monolithic JavaScript bundle — once a best practice — is no longer the way to go for modern web applications. Research has
A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik. It's a good reminder that CSS is a crucial part of thinking web performance, and for a huge
HOT updates (Heap Only Tuple) boost PostgreSQL DML performance. This article explains the concept, shows examples and gives tuning advice.
This is a guest post by Limor Maayan-Wainstein, a senior technical writer with 10 years of experience writing about cybersecurity, big data, cloud computing, web development, and more. High performance computing (HPC) enables you to solve complex problems which cannot be solved by regular computing. Traditionally, HPC solutions provided mainly supercomputers. Today, HPC is typically a mix of resou
Page speed is critical. You need to get content to your audience as quickly as possible on every device. You also need to render ads in a speedy way to maintain a good user experience and make money to support your journalism.
Vue Router is the official router for Vue that is mostly used for creating multiple pages living on different routes (`/home`, `/profile`) in your application but has some features that some people do not know about. In this tutorial, Timi Omoyeni is going to show you some amazing features the Vue Router has and how we can make use of them in our app. You can find all the code used in this article
GitHub recently upgraded to Ruby 2.7. Learn how the team approached the deprecation warnings, why upgrading is important, and the notable performance improvements.
Ionic Framework provides first-class support for building fast and mobile-optimized applications for any platform using React. In this tutorial, Jerry Navi will show you how to build forms using Ionic React’s UI input components in this tutorial. You will also learn how to use a library to help with detecting form input changes and responding to validation rules. Finally, you will learn to make yo
A behind-the-scenes look at how we improved comment performance in the Figma editor
How architecture decision records can help your team.
In this article, Umar Hansa will demonstrate some useful features in DevTools which can help you improve the accessibility of your website. For many websites, things like performance and accessibility are an afterthought. But as web developers, it’s best to strive to create the best possible experience we can for our users, regardless of their abilities. This article uses Google Chrome since it’s
You might be wondering, “Why should I use this instead of the alternatives?” Sapper is based on Svelte, which is known for its speed and relatively small bundle size. In a world where performance plays a huge role in determining an effective user experience, we want to optimize for that. In this article, Daniel Madalitso Phiri will take you through how to build a Svelte-powered static blog with Sa
The Semantic Code team shipped a massive improvement to the language support system that powers code navigation. Code navigation features only scratch the surface of possibilities that start to open up when we combine Semantic‘s program analysis potential with GitHub’s scale.
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
Monica Powell shared a really cool trick the other day:
In this blog posting you find out: What is fillfactor and how does it affect PostgreSQL performance? | Effects & Testing
Introducing major end-to-end enhancements from a better development experience to serving pages even faster.
One easy way to improve the speed of a website is to only download images only when they’re needed, which would be when they enter the viewport. This “lazy
Since React was introduced, it has transformed the way front-end developers build web applications, and its virtual DOM is famous for effectively rendering components. In this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo will discuss various methods of optimizing performance in React applications, and also the features of React that we can use to improve performance.
Scott Jehl argues that performance metrics such as First Contentful Paint and Largest Contentful Paint don’t really capture the full picture of everyone’s
Tauri is a toolchain for creating small, fast, and secure desktop apps from your existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this article, Kelvin explains how Tauri plays well with the progressive framework Vue.js by integrating both technologies in bundling an example web app called **nota** as a native application.
Gatsby is a modern static-site generator that has revamped the way static websites are being built. It incorporates React, Node.js, and GraphQL to create stunning and blazing-fast websites. In this post, Aleem Isiaka will introduce Gatsby plugins, discuss the types of Gatsby plugins that exist, differentiate between the forms of Gatsby plugins, and, finally, create a comment plugin that can be use
From June 30th to July 2nd, Google’s web platform team brought together the web community for [web.dev LIVE](https://web.dev/shows/web-dev-live-day-1), a digital event to talk about the latest development to the platform and tools ecosystem, give developers a chance to talk to each other and ask their burning questions to the team. Over the three days, the Google team shared a round of updates and
Just had a couple of good performance links burning a hole in my pocket, so blogging them like a good little blogger.
Today, we’d like to share with you some of the stuff that has recently shipped in Workers KV: a new feature and an internal change that should significantly improve latency in some cases. Let’s dig in!
Every month, we present an overview of things the Smashing team has been working on — all in one place. We organized Smashing Meets on three days — events that were open to everyone in the web community. With sessions on performance, CSS, GraphQL, and creative courage, we made sure to leave plenty of time for Q&A, networking, competitions and prizes. The past few weeks have been quite challenging:
Cache Analytics gives you deeper exploration capabilities into Cloudflare’s content delivery services, making it easier than ever to improve the performance and economics of serving your website to the world.
At Slack, Quality is a shared responsibility. The Quality Engineering team is focused on creating a culture of testing, increasing test coverage, and helping the company ship high-quality features faster. We encourage all our developers to write and own end-to-end (E2E) tests. In turn, Quality Engineering (QE) is responsible for the frameworks used and provides…
Table functions & performance: Solve performance issues related to stored procedures and or a composite data type in PostgreSQL
Here’s a fantastic case study where Ivan Akulov looks at the rather popular writing app Notion and how the team might improve the performance in a variety of
How to use a hierarchical query, which is an SQL query that handles model data such as the structure of organizations - find out more
User research helps companies make higher quality software faster and more cost-effectively. However, there can sometimes be resistance to the up-front costs of running UX studies. In this article, Steve Bromley will equip you with some of the tools you will need to run the right kind of research study. This helps a research team run high quality, reliable studies that have a real impact on design
Cloudflare launches speed.cloudflare.com, a tool that allows you to gain in-depth insights into the quality of your network uplink, including throughput, latency and jitter.
This guide is about the HTML syntax for responsive images (and a little bit of CSS for good measure). We'll go over srcset and , plus a whole bunch of things to consider to help you get the best performance and design control from your images.
Starting today, enterprise customers who are entitled to secondary DNS will be able to configure their zone in the Cloudflare Dashboard.
Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. We can’t afford regularly spending time optimizing apps all over again. It’s costly, and complex. As a first step in coming up with a solution for any problem, we need to make the problem visible. In this article, Anton Nemtsev will help you with exactly that It’s not enough to optimize an application. You need to prevent
This article discusses the question if binary data should be stored inside PostgreSQL or not. The performance of the various options is benchmarked.
Smashing Meets is a friendly, inclusive, online meetup for people who work on the web. We focus on front-end and UX, but cover all sorts of topics from performance to accessibility. We organize Smashing Meets together with some amazing communities from around the world. Join us for Smashing Meets — two free online meetups with speakers, activities, and plenty of chances to make new friends. Just l
Find out about how network latency is essential to PostgreSQL database performance. Measure the performance impact caused by latency.
In this article, Blessing Krofegha introduces Typescript, a superscript of JavaScript that presents the static type feature for spotting common errors as developers codes, which enhances performance, hence results in robust enterprise applications. You’ll also learn how to efficiently set up TypeScript in a React Project as we build a Money Heist Episode Picker App, exploring TypeScript, React hoo
Congestion control and loss recovery play a big role in the QUIC transport protocol performance. We recently added support for CUBIC and HyStart++ to quiche, the library powering Cloudflare's QUIC, and lab-based testing shows promising results for performance in lossy network conditions.
How do we effectively find out why our application is slow? Even if we have a fix for the slow code, how can we prove that our new code is faster?
Mobile app development using hybrid frameworks has come a long way since initial release in 2008. With the improvements being made to the JavaScript engine and improved processing power available to mobile phones, the major concern people had when they considered developing their apps using the hybrid approach — namely, performance — has all but been eliminated, and cross-platform frameworks have
As we have now formalized our workshop process, we thought we’d share a little more about how these events run. Unlike in-person workshops where we keep you in a room for an eight hour day, we realized than many of you have a lot of other commitments right now. Our initial online workshops went so well, we have scheduled many more. Find out how what we learned from those first workshops and what w
I expect this post from Tim Kadlec to be quoted in every performance conference talk for the next few years. There is a lot of data here, so please check it
As of today, customers using Cloudflare Logs can create Logpush jobs that send only Firewall Events. These events arrive much faster than our existing HTTP requests logs: they are typically delivered to your logging platform within 60 seconds of sending the response to the client.
UPDATE July 2023: What could be better in PostgreSQL? Find out about its weak points, and see what has improved since 2020.
The Internet has shown that it was built for this: designed to handle huge changes in traffic, outages, and a changing mix of use. As we are well into April I thought it was time for an update.
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
Slack launched in 2014 with a PHP 5 backend. Along with several other companies, we switched to HHVM in 2016 because it ran our PHP code faster. We stayed with HHVM because it offers an entirely new language: Hack (searchable as Hacklang). Hack makes our developers faster by improving productivity through better tooling. Hack began as a superset of PHP, retaining its best…
