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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. DOM Scripting.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). You can use Heroku’s primer on HTTP caching headers , Jake Archibald’s " Caching Best Practices " and Ilya Grigorik’s HTTP caching primer as guides.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Service Worker Pitfalls and Best Practices , with a few tips about the scope, delaying registering a service worker and service worker caching.