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Small and fast

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+title: Small and fast
+date: 2025-02-12
+permalink: daily/2025/02/12/small-and-fast
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+  - software-development
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+  Try and keep your codebase as lean and performant as possible. You never know what connection people will be using your code from, so avoid bloat and optimise for performance.
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+Due to an local outage, I've had no broadband connection and been mostly offline for the last few days.
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+The only connection I've had is a weak 4G signal from my mobile phone that I've been able to tether from to check emails, etc.
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+But this is slow and I struggled to load the majority of websites.
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+Some would take a number of seconds or minutes to load, or fail.
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+As websites and applications develop and grow, it's important to try and keep your codebase as lean and performant as possible.
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+You never know what connection people will be using your code from.
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+What if their broadband goes down or they're in an area with a poor mobile signal?
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+They may not be able to download your large CSS or JS file, or execute the unoptimised database query.
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+You can't assume everyone will be using a high speed Internet connection, so avoid feature bloat, optimise for performance and keep things small and fast.