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Five ways cookie consent managers hurt web performance (and how to fix them)

Speed Curve

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. What challenges do CMPs create for performance?

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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

shocker) Low performers are almost 4x as likely to use functional outsourcing. Read about it and some of the consequences (search for “Misguided performers”) in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. It's too often an apples/oranges comparison. They'll love you even more. nicolefv : Outsourcing is a bad idea.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

Of course, in some cases the difference to performance is small enough that one can live with it, but it’s often bad enough to be a problem. We fairly frequently see performance get 5% or more worse over time in a single process execution. But, alas, the evidence that they frequently don’t warm up is hard to argue with.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs improve software quality.

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Links on Performance

CSS - Tricks

Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver and the fact that it avoids the use of methods that trigger reflows , like getBoundingClientRect. The post Links on Performance appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

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Understanding How MySQL Collation and Charset Settings Impact Performance

Percona

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems, playing a pivotal role in the functionality and performance of web applications.