#performance

#performance

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Olimpiu Pop: Hello everybody. I'm Olimpiu Pop, an InfoQ editor, and I have in front of me Erica Pisani, one of the track hosts of QCon London 2025, and a very important track in my opinion. One that is important in general, but even more important these days. And the name of the track was performance and sustainability, which seems to be two opposing words. So, Erica, please introduce yourself.

She leaned on a long black cane while singing, which she at one point picked up and pointed at the audience like a gun. The singer had already taken home two awards leading up to her performance, including dance pop recording and remixed recording. Only minutes after leaving the stage, Gaga won pop vocal album for "Mayhem." Gaga trailed behind only Kendrick Lamar, who led with nine nominations.

When Serena Williams strode onto the Wimbledon grass, her legendary power was never in question. Her serve was crushing. Her backhand was unstoppable. But she wouldn't go to the net. She'd see a short ball, the kind that screams "approach," and she would hesitate to volley and miss the point. Serena was not playing at her full potential because of a story in her head.

Two years ago, the Express team initiated a complete revamp of the project's governance. What was once a largely single-maintainer effort under Doug Wilson evolved into a structured Technical Committee (TC) with multiple active contributors. "Our goal was to evolve Express from a single-maintainer project into a sustainable, community-driven effort - one built on shared responsibility, clear processes, and long-term vision," Ulises explained.

When building or optimizing a website from scratch, performance can easily be overlooked until problems start showing up-slow load times, poor user experience, and lower search rankings. There are many ways to improve website speed, such as image optimization, code minification, caching, choosing better hosting, or using a CDN. For developers and site owners starting fresh, it's often unclear which step delivers the biggest impact

I played the new version, out January 22, for around four hours, racing back through the early section of the game in time to meet back up with Aerith and stroll through some of the more taxing areas in the early game. I was struck by two things during my brief return to the slums of Midgar. The first was just how linear, focused, and cinematic the Final Fantasy VII Remake is compared to its sprawling successor, Rebirth.

Key Issues: General UI Lag: Clicking between slides or menus is delayed and often "hangs." Audio/Text Desync: When adjusting text boxes to narration, the audio continues to play but the UI/subtitles freeze for several seconds. Overall Stability: The app feels unresponsive and struggles to handle the project size. What can I do to resolve this issue?Because currently the app is unusable for professional production.

I am experiencing performance issues with Captivate 12.6.

Microsoft keeps touting its Copilot AI as the greatest invention since the wheel. Toward that end, the company has been force-feeding more and more AI into Windows in the belief that everyone is yearning for an "agentic OS." Well, based on much of the user feedback, that's not quite the case. In fact, the more Microsoft keeps promoting AI as some white knight riding in to rescue Windows users, the more that people have been pushing back. The main argument?

Sometimes you need a computer that doesn't have a thousand bells and whistles driving up the price. Still capable of being a daily driver, but not beholden to a massive price hike. We've found a great one that you can rely on without having to spend an arm and a leg. And it's on sale now. Go to Amazon to purchase the HP 15.6 inch Laptop Computer for $399, which is $1600 lower than the retail price of $1999.

Blazing-fast installs uv is routinely 10-100× faster than pip (and often faster than Poetry or pipenv too). Dependency resolution and wheel installation that used to take seconds or minutes now finish in the blink of an eye. One tool to rule them all uv replaces pip + venv + pip-tools + pipx + virtualenv + pyenv in a single binary. You get dependency resolution, lockfiles, virtual-environment management, isolated global tool installation, Python version management, and even script running - all through the same uv command.

Gerwyn Davies treats the photographic portrait as a stage for disappearance in his ongoing body of work. The Sydney-based artist engineers elaborately costumed selves that gleam under studio lighting, swell into sculptural proportions, and refuse to reveal a face. What appears at first to be hypervisibility, sequins, vinyl, and candy-colored textiles, becomes a visual barricade. The body inside the costume is present, centered, and performing.

Some of them, I should have been to the free throw line. Some I missed. Some of them I made. I can't change it. I just got to live with it.

I hang a right onto the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail in the hills north of Santa Barbara, and the 2026 Lucid Gravity seems to defy physics. My hands grip the steering wheel as the vehicle carves country roads with a slalom skier's dexterity and the gusto of a much smaller car. Not bad for the seven-seat, all-electric SUV, which handily wins Esquire's Car of the Year.

The main goal of the site is to help players: Calculate forging probabilities based on different ore combinations Optimize their inventory for tank/damage builds Preview weapon and armor stats before committing resources From a web dev perspective, this project has a few interesting challenges: Real-time probability calculations with many different ores and multipliers Keeping the UI clear and readable even when there's a lot of data on screen Performance on lower-end devices (mobile, older laptops)

For the purposes of this look at the game I replayed through the first two major sections: the tutorial mission with the assault on the Galactic Federation, and then the Fury Green portion on Viewros where Samus first starts to unlock her psychic abilities. Predictably, the Switch 1 version looks noticeably lower-quality than its Switch 2 counterpart, with less-detailed textures and lighting effects. It still looks decent, though, and compares favorably to the Metroid Prime Remaster that was released on Switch in 2023.

Fuse is an Italian digital art studio and production company led by founders Mattia Carretti and Luca Camellini, and a group of engineers, designers, architects and artists who stage artworks, shows and exhibits, including tonight's Dӧkk.

Every few years our team ends up reevaluating our test management setup and it always leads to the same debate. Most tools look similar on paper, but the real difference shows up six months later when the suite grows and the process gets messy. Some teams love the structure in tools like TestRail or Qase, others prefer something lighter that does not slow them down.

When you are building a social feed, data grid, or chat UI, everything feels fine with 10 mock items. Then you connect a real API, render 50,000 rows with myList.map(...), and the browser locks up. The core problem is simple: you are asking the DOM to do too much work. Virtualization solves this by rendering only what the user can actually see. Instead of mounting 50,000 nodes, you render the 15-20 items that are visible in the viewport, plus a small buffer.

It's impossible not to be thankful for Kpop Demon Hunters; they're slaying the demons for us through song! For their Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade debut, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami, the singing voices of Huntrix, performed their no. 1 hit "Golden" while wearing cozy snowsuits with nods to their characters; Ejae had a bright purple headband for Rumi, Nuna had two framing pieces for her hair, and Ami had earmuffs performing as her hairbuns.