Tag: performance
Mitigating 504 Gateway Timeouts
Addressing persistent 504 Gateway Timeout errors on Vercel by optimising AT Protocol data fetching.
Vercel 504s: CDN Caching, Timeout Guards, DID Caching
A second pass at the 504 problem — Cache-Control headers for Vercel's edge CDN, AbortController timeouts on external fetches, and a DID document cache.
Documentation Parity & Performance
Updating Malachite documentation for new service support and optimizing client bundles.
Tourmaline Polish — PDS Rate Limiting & Component Reactivity
Implementing PDS rate limiting, fixing routing issues, and refining component reactivity for Tourmaline.
Optimizing Your Next.js Site's Fast Origin Transfer and ISR Reads
Next.js Link prefetching quietly burned through 15 GB of bandwidth on my Vercel-hosted blog. Here's how I fixed it.
Malachite v0.9.0 — Performance & Rate Limiting Overhaul
Implementing adaptive rate limiting, dynamic batching, and SHA-512 credential security.
Man vs Vibes
Got nerd sniped into missing a workout, and improving the performace of rendering 500k rectangles by 10x.
Jell-O In A Sack
Google claims that its Core Web Vitals initiative has saved users 10,000 years of collective waiting time. The problem is, they sloughed those costs and headaches onto developers.
Broken Promises - The Node.js Event Loop
Several years ago, I was called out by a customer to help them resolve some performance issues they were having in their Node.js application. They were experiencing massive event loop blocking issues in their server, getting a whole 5 requests per second — and, in one extreme case, an event loop delay of over one minute...
Learning to swim with Piscina.js
Piscina is a worker thread pool implementation for Node.js
Elixir String Processing Optimization
This post was inspired by a thread I participated in on the Elixir forum