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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Gzip vs Brotli – Best Browser Compression

MachMetrics

As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. It also offers 9 levels of compression, so that the amount of compression and the time it takes to compress can be fine-tuned.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. So if they can’t beat ‘em in the DBaaS space, they often feel like they have to join ‘em — to the tune of total stack sharing or some proprietary arrangement. ” Nothing nefarious there.

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PostgreSQL Trends: Most Popular Cloud Providers, Languages, VACUUM, Query Management Strategies & Deployment Types in Enterprise

Scalegrid

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. of PostgreSQL hosting. use with PostgreSQL.

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Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. First impressions do count. Control and branch the loading of CSS and JS.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Like every other successful platform, the web operates on a finely tuned understanding of risk and trust , and deprecations are particularly explosive. [2] Developers won't need to do work to realise a benefit.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography

Smashing Magazine

On top of basic font style properties, we can now reliably fine-tune OpenType figures, hyphenation, ligatures, and even kerning. Better still is “Herb Lubalin: American Graphic Designer” (2013) by Adrian Shaughnessy and published by Unit Editions. SVG includes other properties which fine-tune aspects of a stroke.

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