Faceting large result sets in PostgreSQL
Learn how to implement faceting in your PostgreSQL-based applications to narrow search results - very attractive for users.
AWS and Vercel: Accelerating innovation with serverless computing
Vercel's edge-first serverless platform accelerates development with Preview Deployments and delivers production performance at scale, as proven by The Washington Post's seamless US Midterm Elections coverage.
DatoCMS builds 60% faster with a streamlined workflow
How Scale AI unifies design and performance with Next.js and Vercel
Our Solution for Measuring React Native Rendering Times - Shopify
After Shopify went all-in on React Native, we had to find a way to confirm our mobile apps are fast. The solution is an open-source @shopify/react-native-performance library, which measures rendering times in React Native apps.
Edge Config: Ultra-low latency data at the edge
Historical announcement for Edge Config, a globally replicated data store for low-latency reads from Vercel Functions and Routing Middleware.
Optimizing A Vue App — Smashing Magazine
Prioritizing performance when building our web apps improves the user experience and helps ensure they can be used by as many people as possible. In this article, Michelle Barker will walk you through some of the front-end optimization tips to keep our Vue apps as efficient as possible.
Network performance update: Developer Week 2022
Cloudflare did the measurements to prove we’re the fastest developer platform, beating out all the other competition.
EXPLAIN that parameterized statement in PostgreSQL!
EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) output is hard to get for a parameterized statement in PostgreSQL. With a few tricks we can get EXPLAIN output.
Rewrite OR to UNION in PostgreSQL queries
Improve queries in PostgreSQL - it is not always possible to rewrite OR to UNION in a query. Find out when it is safe to do manually.
btree vs. BRIN: 2 options for indexing for PostgreSQL data warehouses
How do you index in a data warehouse? See the advantages and disadvantages of btree (AKA B-tree) and BRIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
GitHub Availability Report: October 2022
In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in September.
Strategies and Tools for Performing Migrations on Platform
Needing to deliver faster and more reliably while managing a growing number of contributors and a more complex codebase seems like the fate of every hyper-growth tech company. For platform teams, the challenge is not any different. How can we quickly roll out and increase the adoption of new technologies safely with a growing codebase and organization?
Turbopack: High-performance bundler for React & TypeScript
Introducing Turbopack, the Rust-based successor to Webpack. A high-performance bundler for React Server Components and TypeScript codebases.
Cloudflare Workers and micro-frontends: made for one another
In this blog-post we demonstrate how hosting and combining multiple server-side rendered micro-frontends on Cloudflare Workers offer a highly scalable, high performance solution to these problems
Why are my PostgreSQL updates getting slower?
Updates getting slower is a frequent complaint of PostgreSQL users. What is behind it and how can I avoid slow updates?
Introducing OG Image Generation: Fast, dynamic social card images at the Edge
Announcing Vercel OG Image Generation, a new library for generating dynamic social card images.
Cloudflare Pages gets even faster with Early Hints
Announcing support for sending Early Hints from your Cloudflare Pages projects
GitHub Availability Report: September 2022
In September, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We also experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We are still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in August and an incident that impacted Actions in August.
How the world’s biggest YouTuber served millions of users on Vercel
Find out how basement.studio balanced performance, entertainment, and reliability for MrBeast's new storefront.
WebRTC live streaming to unlimited viewers, with sub-second latency
Cloudflare Stream now supports live streaming over WebRTC to unlimited concurrent viewers, using open standards WHIP and WHEP, with zero dependencies or client SDKs necessary.
Five Data-Loading Patterns To Boost Web Performance — Smashing Magazine
You don’t need a framework for everything, but if you use one, this article will help you use it in the most performant way.
API Endpoint Management and Metrics are now GA
API Shield customers can save, update, and monitor the performance of API endpoints
How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year.
We’re using TTVC to measure performance on the web—and now you can too
8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about.
Scaling Git’s garbage collection
A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories.
Using the latest Next.js 12.3 features on Vercel
Vercel natively supports and extends Next.js 12.3, allowing teams to improve their workflow and iterate faster.
Meet “Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists” (Deck With 166 Cards) — Smashing Magazine
Meet “Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists”, a deck of 166 checklist cards to help you design and build better interfaces, faster. With accordions, mega-drop-downs, data tables, carousels, and everything in-between.
Leveraging Go Worker Pools to Scale Server-side Data Sharing - Shopify
How Shopify scaled our Server Pixels service to increase its event processing performance by 170%.
Curve fitting for charts: better visualizations for Vercel Analytics
How we made your Vercel Analytics data more actionable to drive performance for your application.
At Next.js Conf 2022, learn to build better and scale faster
Next.js Conf 2022: Presented by Vercel
From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story
Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders that improving the performance of your project is actually worth the investment? How can you prove that the work is necessary to begin with? Or prove that you have shipped improvements? And what is the impact of certain changes on users in different scenarios?
RailsConf 2022: 10 Shopify Tech Talks You Might Have Missed - Shopify
Watch Shopify's tech talent tackle topics ranging from virtual machines, performance improvements, and investing in open source teams at RailsConf 2022
Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD
What happens when your distributed service has challenges with stampeding herds of internal requests? How do you prevent cascading failures between internal services? How might you re-architect your workflows when naive horizontal or vertical scaling reaches their respective limits? These were the challenges facing Slack engineers during their day-to-day development workflows in 2020. Multiple int
Instant Performance Upgrade: From FlatList to FlashList - Shopify
Shopify’s React Native Foundations team created FlashList, a fast and performant list component that can be swapped into your project with minimal effort.
Why React Re-Renders
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the performance of our React apps.
When is JIT Faster Than A Compiler? - Shopify
I had this conversation over and over before I really understood it. It goes: “X language can be as fast as a compiled language because it has a JIT compiler!” “Wow! It’s as fast as C?” “Well, no, we’re working on it. But in theory, it could be even FASTER than C!” “Really? How would that work?” “A JIT can see what your code does at runtime and optimize for only that. So it can do things C can’t!”
Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores — Smashing Magazine
Identify, compare, analyze and fix your Core Web Vitals scores to boost web performance of your sites. These tools will help you to do just that.
Streamline in-person payments with recent Stripe Terminal upgrades
Learn more about Terminal’s latest updates which enable our users to reach more customers globally, start accepting in-person payments faster, and deliver a frictionless checkout experience for more use cases.
GitHub Availability Report: July 2022
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance for Codespaces. This report also acknowledges two incidents that impacted multiple GitHub.com services in June.
5 Steps to Bounce Back from a Negative Performance Review - Shopify
Ebun breaks down how she used a not-so-great performance review to set clear development goals for herself and increase alignment with her lead, ultimately leading to a successful next review.
Powerful Image Optimization Tools — Smashing Magazine
Optimizing the size of images can have a bigger impact on performance than all other areas combined. In this article, Louis Lazaris covers different tools available for reducing the size of images. You might already know that Smashing Magazine has published the book Image Optimization by Addy Osmani, which covers this topic in full detail. But consider this post a compliment to the book, as this w
gexec in psql: PostgreSQL poweruser practice
gexec PostgreSQL poweruser practice: Learn how to use the gexec command and the `||` operator to get the best results out of your psql.
Column order in PostgreSQL does matter
Column order can determine how quickly your data is processed in PostgreSQL. Find out how to troubleshoot performance problems in wide tables
How To Build A Localized Website With Hugo And Strapi — Smashing Magazine
Strapi is an open-source headless content management system (CMS) built with Node.js, and Hugo builds sites pretty fast, with average site builds completed in a second or less. In this tutorial, Zara Cooper explains how to use Strapi’s Internationalization feature to create content in multiple languages. You’ll also learn how to create a Hugo site that consumes localized content from Strapi.
Optimizing TCP for high WAN throughput while preserving low latency
In this post, we describe how we modified the Linux kernel to optimize for both low latency and high throughput concurrently
Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
Hertzbleed explained
Hertzbleed is a brand-new family of side-channel attacks that monitors changes on CPU frequency
Vercel Edge Middleware: Dynamic at the speed of static (historical)
Execute custom logic at the moment of request, pushing personalization to the edge with exceptional performance.
Network performance update: Cloudflare One Week June 2022
We’re excited to share that Cloudflare has the fastest provider in 1,290 of the top 3,000 most reported networks, up from 1,280 even one month ago during Platform Week
Early Hints update: How Cloudflare, Google, and Shopify are working together to build a faster Internet for everyone
During a time of uncertainty due to the global pandemic, a time when everyone was more online than ever before, Cloudflare, Google, and Shopify all came together to build and test Early Hints
MPLS to Zero Trust in 30 days
‘My home network is faster than my corporate network’’ is a common complaint of the employees returning to work. Legacy MPLS based networks were not built to support the shift in the applications.
How To Test Your MVP Within 2 Weeks (Or Less) — Smashing Magazine
Looking for ways to test your product faster? Most of startup founders start a project with visions of a perfect product in their head. However, in reality, a well-performing product will likely look way different than an initial concept. Instead of seeking perfection from the outset, beginning with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is the smartest route to success. In this article, Sergey Krasotin u
Zero Trust, SASE and SSE: foundational concepts for your next-generation network
If you’ve been thinking about Zero Trust or SASE, Cloudflare One Week will demonstrate why Cloudflare One is one of the most complete SASE offerings in the market, with some of the best performance, and why it will only continue to improve
Prebuilding codespaces is generally available
Teams and GHEC customers can now create blazing fast codespaces, even for your largest and most complex projects.
Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Do we, as users and designers, really need to assess typefaces and find out how they perform? Is it necessary? Well, whatever your thoughts are, in 2022, with a mass of typefaces available and 100s of years of designing and manufacturing typefaces, it is time to consider this topic. In this article, we will be discussing ways to test typefaces and other typographic issues. Though this article is s
A beginner’s guide to CI/CD and automation on GitHub
CI/CD and workflow automation are native capabilities on GitHub platform. Here’s how to start using them and speed up your workflows.
Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we will be discussing how typefaces work, ways to test typefaces, and broader typographic issues. Though this article is slightly high-end and academic, fear not. The content will be of interest, especially for committed typeface designers and typographers. If you like complex issues and problems, this is for you.
How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify
TL;DR With Spotify’s rapid global expansion to more than 180 countries, it’s critical that the infrastructure of user forecasts catch up to business needs. As the business evolves, we need an infrastructure in place that can satisfy the varying needs of stakeholders across the company. To enable fast iterations and facilitate model training, we built a system that allows user forecasts to run both