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Master the mental model for choosing between Server Components and Client Components in Next.js, understanding the rendering boundary, serialization constraints, and composition patterns that determine where code runs.
A deep dive into database connection pool configuration, covering pool sizing formulas, connection lifecycle management, health checking strategies, and diagnosing pool exhaustion under production traffic patterns.
A grounded look at where WebAssembly actually delivers value in web applications, covering image processing, cryptography, data transformation, and when JavaScript is still the better choice.
A step-by-step tutorial for implementing full-text search with Elasticsearch covering index design, analyzers, fuzzy matching, faceted search, and performance optimization patterns.
A deep dive into database connection pooling for Node.js services, covering pool sizing, health checks, failover patterns, and the common misconfigurations that cause production outages.
Explore practical WebAssembly use cases for JavaScript developers, from image processing and data compression to cryptographic operations, with clear examples showing when Wasm improves performance and when JavaScript is already fast enough.
Build performant scroll-linked animations using CSS scroll-driven animations API with practical examples of scroll progress timelines, view timelines, parallax effects, and sticky header transforms that run entirely off the main thread.
Design and execute effective load tests using k6 with practical patterns for ramping strategies, realistic user simulation, threshold-based pass/fail criteria, and interpreting results to find bottlenecks before production traffic exposes them.
Configure and optimize database connection pools for high-throughput Node.js applications with practical examples covering pool sizing, health checks, connection lifecycle management, and common pitfalls that cause pool exhaustion.
Master responsive image delivery with practical examples of srcset, sizes, the picture element, and modern formats like AVIF and WebP to dramatically improve page load performance without sacrificing visual quality.
Explore SSR architecture patterns including streaming SSR, selective hydration, island architecture, and partial prerendering, with concrete performance measurements and decision frameworks for choosing the right approach.
Compare offset, cursor, and keyset pagination strategies with practical implementations showing performance characteristics, trade-offs, and when each approach fits your API design.