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JavaScript Performance Optimization Tips: An Overview

Ivan digs into JavaScript performance, from environments, response times, context, parsing, compiling and executing, to bundle sizes and shipping less code.

How to Read Big Files with PHP (Without Killing Your Server)

Christopher Pitt shows how to read and write large files efficiently, using of streams and generators to remove an entire category of application errors.

5 Features in Java 9 that WILL Change How You Develop Software (and 2 That Won’t)

What are the most exciting features that are expected to be released in Java 9?

How to use SVG as a Placeholder, and Other Image Loading Techniques

I’m passionate about image performance optimisation and making images load fast on the web. One of the most interesting areas of…

Vue.Js and React.Js – a Quick Comparison

Frontend developers utilize a variety of tools. Discussion of these tools and arguing which one is the best will easily grow in a holy war, as every developer has his own preferences in terms of methods of working and using programming languages. That is why the wisest decision one can make is to

I have tried switching from Xcode to AppCode for iOS programming

Here are some of my findings when trying to switch from Xcode to AppCode for writing Swift code.

Getting Started with Docker

Get oriented on some basics of Docker before diving into the walkthrough. In this six-part tutorial, you will: Get set up and oriented, on this page, Build and run your first app, Turn your app into a scaling service, Span your service across multiple machines, Add a visitor counter that persists data Deploy your swarm to production

Swarmprom - Prometheus Monitoring for Docker Swarm

This article discusses how to set up application and infrastructure monitoring for Docker Swarm using the Prometheus open source monitoring system and database.

Deploying Docker Compose Services in a Swarm

The newest version of Docker Compose comes with enhanced multi-host support. With the addition, you can have stateful services running in containers.

Exploring Message Brokers: RabbitMQ, Kafka, ActiveMQ, and Kestrel

Explore different message brokers, and discover how these important web technologies impact a customer's backlog of messages, and cluster/data performance.

Getting Started with Microservices Deployment Pipelines

Learn how 4financeIT is planning to do their microservice deployments using Jenkins, GitHub, and Nexus.

Microservices: Open Source, Containers, and Orchestration

Learn why open source technologies are so important to microservices, how containers are involved, and how to orchestrate new and existing microservices apps.

Property Descriptors in JavaScript

Some of the most common complaints about JavaScript come from its dynamic, mutable nature. You can modify nearly any member of any object and even delete some built-in ones.