Edge Perspectives

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Small moves, smartly made, can set big things in motion – that’s the sub-title of my last book, The Power of Pull. It’s been a key theme of my work for decades, but it’s coming back to bite me. I find that a lot of people have grabbed on to this message to justify incremental actions with limited funding, while holding out the expectation that they will potentially lead to big results.

Government 77

Government Programming Systems Performance 77

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Loading scripts asynchronously is critical for getting pages to render more quickly. We care about rendering because that's what users see; if rendering is slow users have a negative experience. But it's not just about what users see - how the site feels is also important. That's why we focus so much on CPU time. If the CPU is blocked, then browsers are delayed responding to user interactions like scrolling and clicking on links.

Mobile 70

Mobile Network Performance 70

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

About a week or so ago I had written a tutorial titled, Getting Started with MongoDB as a Docker Container Deployment , which focused on the deployment of MongoDB. In that tutorial we saw how to interact with the MongoDB instance using the shell client, but what if we wanted to actually develop a web application with MongoDB as our NoSQL database? In this tutorial we’re going to see how to develop a REST API with create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) endpoints using Node.js and the v

Database 52

Database Development 52