Tag: optimization
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How I Debloated My Android TV Via ADB
My Sony Android TV was running sluggish even after uninstalling apps and restarting. The fix was pulling up ADB and removing the hidden system bloat Sony (and Google) preinstall with a whole bunch of Android packages. These included things like ad/promo services, ACR tracking, unused DLNA stacks, and commercial “hotel mode” features that have no…
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On Sub-Second Page Load Times…
When I worked in e-commerce, a big metric of our engineering team was always how long it took for our average user to load our site – not just the HTML, but all assets and for the page to be completely loaded. Other similar considerations included consideration for clutter, image sizes, network traffic back and…
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Database Design From The Ground Up
At the heart of every software project lies the database—The database is the foundation that determines how data is stored, accessed, and updated in every software project. Whatever your definition of a database may be (Relational, NoSQL, TimeSeries, etc.). Database theory provides the principles for structuring and organizing this data efficiently with one of the…