
Note: This was a series of talks I gave to leadership in my organization, so some of the comments here might not make sense in the context of a blog post.
I read that you learn more from a poor example than from a correct one. I don't believe this but that means my site will be a success.
The Negative Leverage Activity
Examine sharding and highlighting strategy with ES
Moment.js alternatives
If you’re looking for moment.js alternatives, I’d recommend reading this article about smaller, lighter-weight moment.js alternatives.
Moment.js instantiation slowness
Was doing some test speedup/performance improvement work recently on the search API and found out something; the moment.js library takes around 100 microseconds (or .1 milliseconds) to create a new instance.
Performance improvement via babel tranpilation removal
My team at work recently upgraded our codebase to use to node 6.9, as node 6 has recently gone to LTS.
Superagent/Request Memory Leaks
The last several weeks Thomas Hunter and myself have spent some of our nights and weekends trying to track down memory leaks in an API we both work on.