DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Is your JVM leaking? The two issues described here were discovered and fixed more than a year ago. This article only serves as historical proof and a beginners' guide on tackling file descriptor leaks in Java.

Java 100

Java Performance 100

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Learning a unified embedding for visual search at Pinterest Zhai et al., KDD’19. Last time out we looked at some great lessons from Airbnb as they introduced deep learning into their search system. Today’s paper choice highlights an organisation that has been deploying multiple deep learning models in search (visual search) for a while: Pinterest.

Latency 58

Latency Storage Architecture Traffic 58

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. As a Web Performance Evangelist at Theodo , I use it every single day. I am constantly amazed at what it offers to the web development community at large and the web performance folks particularly — for free. But things can get difficult pretty quickly when dealing with Single Page Applications — usually written with React, Vue, Svelte or any other front-end framework.

Performance Testing 51

Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

TechBeacon Testing

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Have you ever gone to a public swimming pool and noticed a sign stating the maximum occupancy limit? Those limits were put in place to ensure public safety. APIs use a similar criterion, called a "rate limit," to ensure the safety of the API’s consumers and the API itself.

Programming 42

Programming Testing 42

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this week's roundup, Lighthouse sheds light on third-party scripts, insecure resources will get blocked on secure sites, and many country connection speeds are still trying to catch up to others. literally. Measure the impact of third-party code during page load. Lighthouse, Chrome’s built-in auditing tool, now shows a warning when the impact of third-party code on page load performance is too high.

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Code Internet Internet Speed 8