Let's say you have a search feature on your website that you want to live-update while the user types. The naive implementation would be to send a query to your server on every keystroke. This quickly falls apart, however, because users easily type faster... (more…)

When V8 lead engineer Lars Bak1 describes V8 design decisions, the first thing he talks about are hidden classes.

With the recent addition of SharedArrayBuffer, concurrency is finding its way into the JavaScript language. This addition allows JavaScript programs to perform concurrent access to SharedArrayBuffer objects. WebKit supports SharedArrayBuffer and it has fu... (more…)

My practice proved that there are two good/easy ways to learn a new technology: (more…)

Query processing and transformation of array-backed data tables. (more…)