A look at the many huge disadvantages of Base64 encoding assets into your CSS

The growing number of Netflix subscribers -- nearing 85 million at the time of this Node.js Interactive talk -- has generated a number of scaling challenges for the company. In his talk, Yunong Xiao, Principal Software Engineer at Netflix, describes these…

In previous articles, I talked about NodeJS internals, why NodeJS is so fast, V8 internals and its optimization tricks. That’s cool, but…

Software optimization manuals for C++ and assembly code. Intel and AMD x86 microprocessors.
Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X. 16, 32 and 64 bit systems. Detailed descriptions of microarchitectures.

The incoming Firefox 58 brings faster page loads thanks to a new compiler and streaming compilation, reports Mozilla.

I came across an article yesterday about programming languages, which hit on one of my major peeves, so I can't resist responding. The article is at greythumb.org, and it's called Programmer's rant: what should and should not be added to...

Clearly, Go is the winner here, followed by Java, Node and finally PHP.

When you’re a company the size of Facebook with more than two billion users on millions of servers, running thousands of configuration changes every day involving trillions of configuration checks, as you can imagine, configuration is kind of a big deal.…