Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Back in the day, performance was often a mere afterthought. Quick Wins.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Over years, this article has evolved into a book – please visit Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing website to download]. In this article we are trying to take a more rigorous approach and provide a systematic view of econometric models and objective functions that can leverage data analysis to make more automated decisions.

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Alex Russell

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Bloviating, but not “unsemantic” Convoluted and hard to grok — like my writing — is bad. Simple and direct is good. Defining what “simple” and “direct” are is hard as it involves questions of meaning and what authors (webdevs) can assume of readers (browsers). Why is this important?

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Just like visually-abled users don’t read every word on a page but scan for interesting things, blind screen reader users don’t make their software read each and every word. JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular and Vue have a very bad reputation when it comes to web accessibility. I think not. Take headlines, for example.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. WCMSes have gone through an evolution moving from a Traditional CMS to a Decoupled CMS to a headless CMS. In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). In part 1, we looked at why exactly we need HTTP/3 and the underlying QUIC protocol, and what their main new features are. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.

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