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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index. More interestingly, let’s take a look at Speed Index vs. Largest Contentful Paint.

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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Best Practices for Picking PostgreSQL Data Types

DZone

Determining the most appropriate data types to store the information depends on various factors, including the required precision of float-point values, the content of the values (such as text), compressibility, and query speed. Choosing the right data types in PostgreSQL can significantly impact your database's performance and efficiency.

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RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

Scalegrid

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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Performance and Scalability Analysis of Redis and Memcached

DZone

Speed and scalability are significant issues today, at least in the application landscape. We have run these benchmarks on the AWS EC2 instances and designed a custom dataset to make it as close as possible to real application use cases. However, the question arises of choosing the best one.

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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. More after jump!

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