Articles, guides, and thoughts on web development and technology
Stop polling your database and start streaming it: a technical look at turning the Write-Ahead Log into a high-performance event stream.
A technical deep dive into why your covering indexes fail to prevent heap access and how to tune autovacuum to guarantee zero-I/O queries.
The new source-text access in JSON.parse finally solves the BigInt rounding nightmare without the performance tax of a custom parser.
Stop writing manual type guards for your filter functions; TypeScript 5.5 finally understands your logic as deeply as you do.
Move beyond slow pattern matching and learn how to orchestrate virtual tables, shadow indexes, and BM25 ranking to build a production-grade search engine directly in your database.
Discover how a 40-year-old networking optimization is silently sabotaging the responsiveness of your modern real-time APIs and how a single line of code can fix it.
Transitioning to QUIC isn't always a performance win; learn why network middleboxes and ISP 'UDP policing' might be turning your protocol upgrade into a hidden bottleneck.
Bypassing the structured clone algorithm is the only way to achieve sub-millisecond communication between threads in a high-load JavaScript environment.
Vertical centering no longer requires the Flexbox or Grid tax—discover how a 2024 update to the CSS Box Alignment spec finally killed the web's oldest layout struggle.
Analyze the hidden costs of draw call submission and the architectural shifts required to achieve 100,000 active objects in the browser.