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If you’ve spent much time in online gaming or IT related spaces, you’ve likely seen people refer to optimisation. What does this actually mean though?

There has been a fair amount of talk about how upcoming versions of Java will improve Minecraft. What's coming and how will it change things?

Spark is the most popular tool for identifying performance issues on a Minecraft server. It can be difficult to read if you don’t fully understand how it works.

Minecraft block lookups have gotten slower over time, but just how much slower have they actually gotten?

JavaScript as a language is heavily asynchronous, with promises being deeply integrated. While this is sometimes the best solution, can the overhead of promises pose a problem for hot code?

Knip is a great tool for identifying and cleaning up unused code, and you can make it even more powerful using their preprocessor feature.

Web bundlers such as Webpack are a great tool to deploy web apps, but for more complex programs, bundle size can quickly become an issue.

Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, is a web technology championed by Google to improve the browsing experience on mobile devices. Throughout this article, I'll outline a few of the issues that led me to ditch AMP.

Exceptions are commonly used for flow control in Java, but how well do they perform compared to return values?

JavaScript may not seem to be the ideal language to manipulate large amounts of data. This post goes over a few key problem areas and how you can avoid them.

Mob or entity stackers are a new craze in the Minecraft server administration space, with claims to massively improve performance. Is this true, though?

A common tool for finding lag on Minecraft servers moment is Timings. But there is more than meets the eye when it comes to Timings report, and they're not always able to tell you what is causing lag.