Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. What’s causing this massive shift? The unstoppable rise of open source databases. Compare Ease of Use.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. DOM Scripting.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60