Tag: Performance

WebAssembly: A Portable Compilation Target

Learn how WebAssembly validates, runs, shares memory with hosts, uses WASI and components, and where its portability and speed do not help.

2026-03-31 · 11 min read

Cost-Aware Performance Engineering

Optimize useful latency and throughput per dollar by combining SLO constraints, workload curves, rightsizing, cache economics, and capacity evidence.

2026-03-27 · 14 min read

Caching Layers: From HTTP to the Database

Design coherent browser, CDN, application, distributed, query, and database caches without trading speed for stale data or outages.

2025-12-20 · 11 min read

Browser Rendering: From HTML to Pixels

Follow the browser rendering pipeline from DOM and CSSOM construction to responsive, measurable frames, then diagnose and fix costly work.

2025-09-19 · 11 min read

Memory Layout: Stack, Heap, and Cache Lines

See how virtual memory, allocation, object layout, and cache locality turn data placement into performance and safety tradeoffs.

2025-06-30 · 12 min read

Database Indexing: The B-Tree You Rely On

See how PostgreSQL B-trees turn pages, fanout, ordering, and MVCC into fast lookups, ranges, and real-world tradeoffs.

2025-03-28 · 13 min read