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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

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While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. In this article, we compare Oracle vs. PostgreSQL, outlining the differences in these SQL database costs, features, and ease of use for both developers and database administrators (DBA’s) alike. At a glance – TLDR.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny! Large preview ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ). Large preview ).