Building a static repository for print-perfect PDFs
Most print-ready websites are slow, bloated, and covered in ads. I wanted to build a clean directory for paper templates that loads instantly and prin…
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How We Saved Big and Simplified Our Image Pipeline: Adopting bunny.net on DEV
Hey everyone, Ben here. If you’ve been following the journey of DEV and our open source project Forem , you know we’ve always been obsessed with web p…
Tackling Performance Bottlenecks in Full-Stack Development: A Senior Engineer’s Guide
As a full-stack product engineer, one of the most persistent challenges I face is managing performance bottlenecks that arise between frontend, backen…
Building a Low-Latency Polymarket Bot for Earnings Markets: A Real-World Attempt (Lessons & Technical Breakdown)
A bot on Polymarket quietly extracted $32k in near risk-free profits by sniping “Will Company XYZ Beat Earnings?” markets. It waits for the official r…
Why recording video in the browser is harder than it looks
Hey folks! In this article, I want to share our experience building a screen recorder inside the browser. The product is Browser Recorder , a Chrome e…
Unity UGUI Optimization: Why Rendering.UpdateBatches Can Cost More Than Your Combat Scene
Intro A high Rendering.UpdateBatches cost in Unity’s UGUI often signals excessive SyncTransform activity. This article breaks down how TransformDirty …
Memory Leaks in Python and How to Overcome Them
Python is known for being simple, readable, and developer-friendly. One of its biggest advantages is automatic memory management, which means develope…
The Deep Mechanics of Online Bulk Deletion in PostgreSQL
MVCC, WAL, vacuum, and replication slots under sustained delete load - and how to delete billions of rows without your database noticing Most "how to …
UUID vs ULID vs NanoID: Which Identifier Should You Use in 2026?
A few years ago, choosing an ID format was easy. Most of us generated a UUID, stored it in the database, and moved on. Today things are different. Mod…
Every elevator has a load plate. Tests are supposed to kill fear, not feed it.
Every elevator has a small metal plate near the doors: 8 persons — 630 kg . It doesn't mean the car snaps at the ninth person. It means an engineer lo…
Starving the Garbage Collector: A Pragmatic Guide to Zero-Allocation C#
Over the last few weeks, I’ve open-sourced a suite of high-performance, zero-dependency C# engines. This includes a native DataFrame library ( Glacier…
Edge Computing in the Browser: How I Replaced a Backend Server with Web Workers & WASM
The obsession with centralizing heavy compute on backend servers is a massive bottleneck for both cost and latency. In 2026, as more applications move…
Magento 2 EAV Performance Deep Dive: Optimizing the Entity-Attribute-Value Model
The Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model is both Magento's greatest strength and its most persistent performance bottleneck. It gives you unlimited flex…
Approval Is Not Enough: Building a Sub‑Microsecond Runtime Governance Gate in Rust
Most AI governance systems check approval once. Then they assume the agent is still authorised to act. That assumption fails silently. Policy changes.…
Smart Query-Aware Cache Invalidation: Solving Mongoose Performance at Scale
The Mongoose Caching Problem (And How We Solved It) From 300 RPS to 700+ RPS: A 2.2x Performance Breakthrough When you're building a Node.js applicati…
WebAssembly turned my "static" site into a zero-backend app platform
For the longest time I treated "static site" and "does real work" as mutually exclusive. Static meant brochureware. Anything heavier like resizing an …
Engineering Resilience: Two Lessons from Building Under Pressure
A reflection on performance optimization at scale and building reliability mechanisms; two tasks that defined my internship. Every engineering interns…
Image Optimization for Modern Web Applications: Formats, CDNs, Automation
Images account for 50-70% of a typical web page's weight. Optimizing them properly — choosing the right format, generating responsive sizes, automatin…
Why We Rebuilt Our Magento Checkout with React: Performance Results
Magento's default Luma checkout loads a heavy Knockout.js stack, dozens of RequireJS modules, and payment iframes that fight for the main thread. For …
WASM SIMD by example: 16 RGB pixels to grayscale per instruction
I finally understood WASM SIMD by writing a real kernel: RGB → grayscale luma, 16 pixels per instruction instead of one at a time. Same math, ~4× fast…
HTML-First Websites Are Quietly Winning Again in 2026
TL;DR: HTML-first means shipping real, server-rendered content before any JavaScript runs, then adding scripts only where they earn their place. In 20…
Token Cost Optimization: How to Cut LLM Inference Spend Without Cutting Quality
There is a version of token cost optimization that I do not recommend: cutting token counts by reducing the quality of your system prompt, your retrie…
Streaming 25 Million Excel Cells Through 7 MB of Memory
Streaming 25 Million Excel Cells Through 7 MB of Memory TL;DR: I built an export pipeline that streams 15M+ records as formatted Excel files inside ZI…
How I Cut SQL Query Time from 45 Seconds to 8 Seconds on 2.3 Million Rows
I inherited a SQL Server database with 2.3 million rows. Queries took 45 seconds. Users were frustrated. Dashboards timed out. Here is exactly what I …
How I Cut SQL Query Time from 45 Seconds to 8 Seconds on 2.3 Million Rows
I inherited a SQL Server database with 2.3 million rows. Queries took 45 seconds. Users were frustrated. Dashboards timed out. Here is exactly what I …
Next.js + Supabase Performance Optimization: From Slow to Lightning Fast
Next.js + Supabase Performance Optimization: From Slow to Lightning Fast Last month, I optimized a Next.js + Supabase application that was frustrating…
Mobile Game Power Optimization: Why 30 FPS vs 60 FPS Can Double Energy Usage (Real Data Breakdown)
Introduction Real-world mobile game power consumption varies significantly across rendering complexity, frame rate, and device workload distribution. …
Cколько железа нужно ИИ-агенту? Как мы считали ресурсы для on-premise LLM и почему калькуляторы ошиблись в 5 раз
На связи Сергей Смирнов, AI-инженер и основатель LLMStart.ru. Один из самых частых вопросов от бизнеса: «Сколько и какого железа нужно, чтобы разверну…
How to see running queries in Postgres and kill them
Something is slow. Maybe a page takes forever to load, maybe a migration is hanging, maybe your Supabase dashboard just spins. You suspect a query is …
How I Built an AI-Powered Adult (Porn) Content Scanner for Windows (And the Engineering Challenges I Didn't Expect)
Building an AI-Powered Content Scanner for Windows: Performance, Multithreading and GPU Acceleration in .NET Building software always looks straightfo…