Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

A couple of month ago, someone asked if I'd written a page bloat update recently. The answer was no. I've written a lot of posts about page bloat, starting way back in 2012, when the average page hit 1MB. To my mind, the topic had been well covered. We know that the general trend is that pages are getting bigger at a fairly consistent rate of growth.

Metrics 81

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 81

Professor Beekums

AUGUST 6, 2017

I’m a software developer. When I see a technical problem, my first thoughts are always for technical solutions. It is the obvious thing to do. However, solving a problem well often requires understanding what caused the problem in the first place. “The previous developer is so bad and I am so baller” was often the answer when I was a lot younger. That specific answer is often incorrect.

Technology 60

Technology Technology Software Software 60

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

If you haven’t had the chance to watch it yet, Paul Lewis put together an awesome video series that demonstrates how to build a media player alongside some of the great features of Progressive Web Apps. There are a series of videos on YouTube that take place over a couple of days as he builds each new part of the site. Watching videos of developers showcasing their work is definitely one of my favourite ways of learning new things!

Code 58

Code Website Media Efficiency 58

The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 7, 2017

With every version of Android comes more security measures dropped into place. For example, in Android 6+ the user needs to grant permissions when doing certain activities, such as using the camera. These security measures are more aggressive than the previous form of asking permissions in the manifest file. So what if we want to prompt the user to grant permissions at a time other than when trying to use the feature that requires the permissions?

Development 52

Development 52

Particular Software

AUGUST 8, 2017

While we've been working hard on supporting.NET Core lately, you may have noticed that we also released a brand new (and dare we say better?) persistence library for NServiceBus called SQL Persistence. The new persister supports multiple database engines and uses raw ADO.NET and native SQL queries, without the need for an intermediate ORM. We dreamed up some powerful new features that would take NServiceBus persistence to the next level.

DevOps 40

DevOps Database Education Engineering 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. Linux load averages track not just runnable tasks, but also tasks in the uninterruptible sleep state. Why? I've never seen an explanation. In this post I'll solve this mystery, and summarize load averages as a reference for everyone trying to interpret them.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

If you haven’t had the chance to watch it yet, Paul Lewis put together an awesome video series that demonstrates how to build a media player alongside some of the great features of Progressive Web Apps. There are a series of videos on YouTube that take place over a couple of days as he builds each new part of the site. Watching videos of developers showcasing their work is definitely one of my favourite ways of learning new things!

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40