In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the ways they improved performance on the Syntax.fm website, how they knew it was slow to begin with, and the various changes they made to caching, and loading transcripts to improve the speed of the site.
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
01:32 Adding a database requires queries
03:32 How did we know the s ... Show More
Aug 5
1027: The Rise of the Design Engineer
Scott and Wes tackle your questions on the rise of the design engineer, why AI still lacks “taste” (and why it’s about more than just looks), and how to actually write tests in the age of AI-assisted coding. Plus: is AI a bubble about to burst, keeping coding agents efficient in ... Show More
1h 3m
Aug 3
1026: OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face
A rogue OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Hugging Face, the React Compiler lands in Rust, and a fresh Rust full-stack framework ships. Scott, Wes, and CJ also dig into Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement, Claude Opus 5, and the campaign to kill the cookie banner. Show Notes 00:00 W ... Show More
1h 36m
Jul 29
1025: The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov)
Dan Abramov joins Scott and Wes to explain AT Protocol, the open standard quietly rebuilding the social web. They get into how it actually works, why it’s way bigger than just Bluesky, and why Dan calls it one of the most interesting ideas on the internet right now. Show Notes 00 ... Show More
1 h
Aug 2020
Episode 109 - Quick pour - Web Performance
Web performance continues to be an input factor to prioritize when building web applications. In this episode, we speak with Google engineers, Kristofer Baxtor, and Jason Miller about the latest best practices in web performance. Guests: Kristofer Baxter - @kristoferbaxter Jason ... Show More
1h 7m
Mar 2022
Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs (JS Party #216)
This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org.
Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and m ... Show More
1h 13m
Jan 2023
#565: DevOps Guru for RDS Detects and Resolves Performance Bottlenecks for Amazon RDS
In this episode, Simon is joined by Shrey Luthra and Jacob Sullivan, Product Managers for Amazon RDS and Amazon DevOps Guru, to talk about a new capability through which customers can detect and diagnose performance issues for their Amazon RDS databases and get recommendations on ... Show More
18m 4s