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Empirical studies have shown that human beings cannot normally perceive changes in numeric data (e.g. price movements) occurring more frequently than once every 200ms.

Consequently for applications that have a human as their primary user, a useful rule of thumb is that Stop-The-World (STW) pause of 200ms or under is usually of no concern. Some applications (e.g. streaming video) need lower GC jitter than this, but many GUI applications will not.

Voilà, pas la peine de tuer la machine à rafraichir trop souvent, 5Hz ça suffit.

How to lose weight (in the browser) And what if we got together a bunch of experts who work on large sites to create a definitive front-end performance guide?

How to lose weight (in the browser) And what if we got together a bunch of experts who work on large sites to create a definitive front-end performance guide?

RESS = Responsive Design + Server Side Components

A load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.

MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It is faster and smaller than JSON. Implementations are available in dozens of languages.

An open source log management tool, which is able to parse, analyse, group and store logs into ElasticSearch

So slow pages can have a very real impact on your business. These are some very real incentives for whipping your site into shape, so let’s move on from the why to the how.

The evolution of SoundCloud architecture through the times, from a traditional simple stack to a complete evolutive one

A very interesting feedback on Solr vs ElasticSearch. Mainly deals with indexing and search performance.

A Solr vs ElasticSearch comparison

A load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.