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The elegance of Rust
Here's three little Rust tricks that I learned in the last week or so. Each struck me as being an elegant approach to working cleanly within the confines of a strongly-typed language. Read more
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Parsing individual data items from huge JSON streams in Node.js
Let's say you have a huge amount of JSON data and you want to parse values from it in Node.js. Perhaps it's stored in a file on disk or, more trickily, it's on a remote machine and you don't want to download the entire thing just to get some data from it. And even if it is on the local file system, the thing is so huge that reading it in to memory and calling
JSON.parsewill crash the process with an out-of-memory exception. Today I implemented a new method for my async JSON-parsing lib, BFJ, which has exactly this type of scenario in mind. Read more -
Showing how poor performance affects user behaviour
"Bad performance hurts user engagement" is a sentiment that feels intuitively true but can be hard to sell in product conversations. The best way to persuade a non-believer is to point them at hard evidence and for that you need to do a few things with your performance data. Read more
