Tech Insights

<p>Browser painting and considerations for web performance </p>

<p>Excellent article about how ORMs cause leaky abstractions that lead to performance issues and how fixing them is generally simple: </p>

<p>A comprehensive guide on throttling and debouncing in JavaScript </p>

<p>django-perf-rec is like Django's <code>assertNumQueries</code> on steroids! </p>

<p>A library for lazy loading React components </p>

<p>The best way to bind event handlers in React </p>

<p>Are triggers really that slow in Postgres? </p>

<p>Understanding time format of the EXPLAIN command in Postgres </p>

<p>Fisher-Yates: the best way to shuffle an array and the dangers of naïveté </p>

<p>Reading a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE Query Plan: </p>

<p>statically: compiles a python function with cython using only a decorator - </p>

<p>How to make your code 80 times faster with PyPy: </p>

<p>Use <code>loader: 'file?name=public/fonts/[name].[ext]'</code> when loading fonts with Webpack instead of <code>loader: 'url-loader?limit=100000'</code> to avoid CSS bloat. The latter bundles the fonts into the CSS as DataUrls.</p>

<p>django-eraserhead: Django package that provides hints to optimize database usage by deferring unused fields (and more) </p>

<p>Critical CSS and Webpack: Automatically Minimize Render-Blocking CSS </p>

<p>Page Speed Matters </p>

<p>The Mindfulness of a Manual Performance Audit: </p>

<p>Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis: </p>

<p>Django has Conditional View Processing tools for conditional requests (ETag If-match, If-modified-since): </p>

<p>Audit web apps performance with Google Lighthouse </p>