Performance

We just had an issue at work. A system that had been working fine suddenly started losing data. This had never been an issue before, and it seemed to happen at random which made it pretty hard to debug and reproduce. The system consisted of a JavaScr...

Asynchronous stack traces: why await beats .then() First up, Mathias Bynens has an interesting look into how JavaScript stack traces are generated, and why await beats .then() when it comes to debugging. Writing speaking code & ineffective coding hab...

Summer is on, June is over, and it's time for yet another summary of a month passed. This month's focus will be on PHP and Laravel, with an emphasis on performance, but many of the tricks are also useful if you work with other technologies. There's a...