Sérgio Gomes
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Developing things on the web. Web performance engineer at Automattic. Clumsy maker.
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Joseph Scott
3 days ago
The performance team I lead at Automattic is hiring -
automattic.com/work-with-us...
#webperf
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#wordpress
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Performance Engineer, Backend
Automattic’s products—WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Jetpack, and more—serve tens of billions of page views every month from data centers around the world. The PerfOps team exists to make...
https://automattic.com/work-with-us/job/performance-engineer-backend/
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It's been a while since my last blog post, so I made up for it with a wall of text 😅 This article looks at why JS-heavy web apps tend to miss their performance goals over time, what you can do to somewhat mitigate that, and ends with a plea for us to move back to the server, as an industry.
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JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performance-goals/
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Marvin Hagemeister
7 months ago
The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm could be made 33x faster. Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo.
marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Semver
During the installation process, package managers run a bunch of semver comparisons. The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm can be made around 33x faster.
https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-12/
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Zach Leatherman
8 months ago
it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake
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