If you have ever run DESCRIBE HISTORY on a Delta table that receives streaming data every 60 seconds and watched it either hang for hours or crash with an OutOfMemoryError, you are not alone and you are not doing anything wrong. The problem is architectural, and once you understand the internals, the fix becomes a lot clearer. Here is what I learned after digging into why this happens and what you
My Hugo blog was downloading 3.6 MB of JavaScript and 40 KB of external CSS on every page load. For a static blog with mostly text and a few diagrams, that was absurd. Here is how I fixed it. HTML: 86 KB JavaScript: 3.6 MB (Mermaid + KaTeX) CSS: 40 KB (KaTeX stylesheets) Problem: render-blocking scripts loaded on every page for math and diagrams Adding minifyOutput = true to hugo.toml shrunk HTML