Covers approaches to how we improved performance by reducing JavaScript size & making that Javascript execute more efficiently.

In recent years instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct…

A series outlining how we improved the page load times of instagram.com by 50%. This entry covers early flushing HTML and pushing data.

In recent years instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct…

ZSH, also called the Z shell, is an extended version of the Bourne Shell (sh), with plenty of new features, and support for plugins and them…

The purpose of this blog post is not to introduce using npm as a build tool. There are lots of good articles about the »where« and »why«. I …

Should you be using the meta keywords tag? It's no longer used by the search engines. Get the facts here and make your own decision!

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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Follow the steps to deploy to Firebase hosting from GitHub via Travis CI

This article explores the basics of Node's readable and writable streams.

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When loading a script on an HTML page, you need to be careful not to harm the loading performance of the page. Depending on where and how yo…

I’ve been writing Node.js code and services from the early days which started around 6 years ago. I have a long background in C/C++ but…