9 articles tagged with ""optimization""
Your CI pipeline downloads 400MB of node_modules on every single push. I've set up GitHub Actions for dozens of projects, and actions/cache alone cut our CI times from 8 minutes to 90 seconds. Here's exactly how.
In Laravel I toggled features with .env files at runtime. In Rust, you toggle features at compile time — and the disabled code literally doesn't exist in your binary. Coming from web dev, this broke my brain in the best possible way.
Your CI pipeline takes 15 minutes to run but only does 30 seconds of real work? After watching too many progress bars spin on dependency installs, I learned how to cache everything in GitHub Actions — and you should too.
Every time you push code and wait 8 minutes for Docker to rebuild from scratch, a kitten cries. Learn how Docker layer caching actually works - and the one ordering mistake that's killing your CI/CD pipeline.
If you're copy-pasting the same utility code and npm packages across 30 Lambda functions, your deployment zips are a disaster and your sanity is next. Lambda Layers fix this — here's everything I wish I knew earlier.
I spent years writing loops that processed one number at a time. Turns out your CPU has been laughing at me this whole time — it can do 8 calculations simultaneously. Rust lets you use that power without losing your mind.
Coming from 7 years of Laravel/Node.js where 'fast enough' was the mantra, I thought performance optimization meant adding cache layers and hoping. Then Rust forced me to actually measure, benchmark, and prove performance claims. Turns out 'blazingly fast' isn't marketing - it's measurable!
Your Docker image is 2GB and takes 10 minutes to deploy? After countless production deployments, I learned that multi-stage builds can shrink images by 90% - here's how to stop shipping garbage to production!
Write code like Python, get performance like C. Sounds too good to be true? Welcome to Rust's zero-cost abstractions - where elegance meets speed!