One minute (re)mounts So here was the situation: at work, we had a component that was incredibly expensive to mount – in some cases, mounting literally took a whole minute. This could have been tolerable if it happened rarely, e.g. perhaps when the page first loads, but unfortunately we
This is a second part of a 2-part series, in which I describe a new view framework I developed while working on an experimental React concurrent mode profiler. In part 1, I discussed why implementing a view abstraction was necessary. In this part, we'll discuss what this framework
This summer, I have been working on an experimental React concurrent mode profiler as part of the inaugural batch of the MLH Fellowship. One of the biggest engineering challenges I had was to optimize our canvas rendering. This was no small task. A single 10-second profile can have over 100,
In distributed systems, it is often necessary to elect a leader process whenever there is a need to coordinate tasks. We assume that such a system contains a symmetric network of processes, i.e. all processes in the network are indistinguishable, and anyone can be the leader. Note that these
The grammatical theory behind both the conservative and innovative usage of this hotly debated word.