“The name pragma comes from ALGOL 68, where they were called pragmats, which was itself shorthand for the word pragmatic. When they were adopted by C in the 1970’s, the name was shortened again to #pragma, and due to the widespread use of C, became fully integrated into the programmer zeitgeist.”— Dave Cheney, dave.cheney.net
“Until you have measured current performance and determined that current performance is inadequate, “faster” is a totally meaningless word.”— Eno Compton, commandercoriander.net
“A careless approach to a main function can result in needless complexity. Compare two versions of the same main function: before and after. One version is over 400 lines. The other is about 40 lines. That’s an order of magnitude.”— Eno Compton, commandercoriander.net
“AWS is a powerful cloud provider. It is made up of numerous small services that are configured independently and can be combined with each other like a construction kit. Moreover, the hosting of static content on AWS is ridiculously cheap. (Considering just S3, my monthly bill is usually around a fe…”— Jan Heuermann, jotaen.net
“Coroutines are functions that runs asynchronously. The body of coroutines are generator functions, each time a promise is yielded inside a coroutine it blocks until the promise is resolved or rejected. Each coroutine execution returns a promise that is resolve when the coroutine returns, or rejected…”— yosbelms, github.com
“Finally, we sped up our application from more than 2.5 seconds to less than 250 milliseconds for longest request. These times occur just in our use case. We are confident that for a larger number of writes or longer eviction period, access to standard cache can take much more time, but with bigcache…”— Łukasz Drumiński, allegro.tech
“Node’s 'event loop' is central to being able to handle high throughput scenarios. It is a magical place filled with unicorns and rainbows, and is the reason Node can essentially be 'single threaded' while still allowing an arbitrary number of operations to be handled in the background.”— Alexandra Grant, medium.com