Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. The main thread is the single execution context that is responsible for rendering the UI, executing JavaScript code, and handling user interactions.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

However, this simplicity leaves the door open for many potential issues and technical debt — bloated code, specificity hell, duplicated code blocks with very little to no difference, leftover unused selectors, unnecessary hacks, and workarounds, to name a few. Leftover, unused chunks of code from deleted features.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Automation was a hot topic at the event and Dynatrace had the opportunity to host a workshop “Building Autonomous Operations for Pivotal Platform with Keptn”. The workshop taught best practices that companies can look toward to automate more of their environment and tame and better manage the complexity.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

From the developer’s perspective, frontend tooling gives us: the ability to author modules, a dev server for local development, Hot Module Replacement (HMR) for a shorter feedback loop in development mode, the ability to target legacy browsers with polyfills, processing a host of filetypes apart from JavaScript, the list goes on.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Visualisation techniques like EventStorming can also be used to design code.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This premise, known as graceful degradation allows a system to continue working when parts of it are dysfunctional — much like an electric bike becomes a regular bike when its battery dies. Often system failures are chalked up as “corner cases” — things that rarely happen, however, the web has many corners.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

This is a hugely important technique if you need to process and track massive amounts of unique data units, as it is very space-efficient. From Dynamo and Postgress, to HBase and Bitcoin, Bloom Filters are used in almost all modern distributed systems. Space/Time Trade-offs in Hash Coding with Allowable Errors ", Bloom, Burton H.,

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

There is a high cost associated with work that leaves your team… team boundaries and software boundaries should be isomorphic” — James Lewis, Thoughtworks I’ve written and spoken a lot about architecting sociotechnical systems and how to find boundaries. And there’s more research to back it up.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. design systems. Your design process just got a bit less stressful. Table of Contents. Also, take a look at the other. accessibility. annotations.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Before bringing up the refactoring proposal to the management and stakeholders, it can be useful to back up the suggestion with some hard data about the codebase health — not only to convince the management department, but also have a measurable goal for the refactoring process. Preparation And Planning.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

Sample Files And Instructions For Running The Code. You can find the full code snippets of this article in the following files: index.html. Since the code contains JavaScript modules, you can only run the example from an HTTP server and not from the local file system. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. How long your piece of JavaScript takes to finish depends on how fast the device is that your code is running on.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. Once the workshop was over, we got to work.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and how much more maintainable and extendable it is, the final stylesheet needs to be optimized for the best possible performance and least possible file size. First, the unoptimized code is parsed and transpiled following the rules set in the config.

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Tasktop

JULY 1, 2021

And like any process, you need meaningful data insights to understand how fast you’re delivering, what’s slowing you down and what you can do to improve. While DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics help you deliver more quickly, Flow Metrics —as defined by Dr. DORA Metrics: Gold Standard for Releasing Code.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then? On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Jump to online workshops ?. Here is a code snippet example of how Qwik works in code.

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O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

Whether it’s dev, staging, testing, or production, developers need assurance that the code they deploy to one environment is going to work in another. Developers at the "Istio Hands-on Workshop" at KubeCon in Copenhagen. This, in turn, helps teams fully utilize all available capacity to consistently run systems at scale.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Let’s get right into the code. Just before we start, this is the repo containing the code demonstrating everything under Real-time update on GraphQL, using Apollo as a state management tool, Fragments, and Apollo directives. Also, here’s the repo containing the code demonstrating subscription on the the client-side.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Two notable examples are comments on GitHub and the source code for posts on Smashing Magazine! Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can explain code that you don’t understand, including code that has been intentionally obfuscated. It can pretend to be an operating system. Sydney The internal code name of the chatbot behind Microsoft’s improved search engine, Bing. BLOOM An open source model developed by the BigScience workshop.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

In his upcoming online workshop The TypeScript Masterclass , Stefan Baumgartner will dive into type systems and how to use them well when writing JavaScript. Jump to the workshop ?. Here are two important aspects: Test whether your code works and sends emails in the right way. Online, and live. August 5–19, 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t any special systems to provide custom statically generated pages for different wildcard subdomains like you may with dynamic routing for example (where you have [slug].js Jump to the workshop ?. The Caveats Of Wildcards With Next.js. Difficulties with Development. Online, and live. Dec 2–3, 2021. 0]) }, []).

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While these metrics are key in measuring flow in a specific area of the value stream (such as measuring lead time between code commit and deploy), they do not reflect the reality of how long it really takes to deliver business value from ideation to operation. Edwards Deming, to improve the system you need to get outside the system.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. For example, try and recall the last time your team’s processes were audited for compliance against the company’s ethical standards. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Devin Harold. Credit: Devin Harold.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Although many Android developers are still in the process of making the move to Kotlin, those who have already transitioned know the benefits it offers. Does your function have side effects?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live. Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2021

One day I was assigned the task of adding a range input to the library and, I figured it would be a similar process to the other inputs I had implemented in the past. It’s the article I wish I had when I had to do this myself and, I hope that it helps make this process faster and smoother for you. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The reason we pay so much attention to design (as we do to any other detail in the process of project completion) is that it plays one of the crucial roles in your business success. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. And vice versa.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At Amazon, machine learning has been key to many of our business processes, from recommendations to fraud detection, from inventory levels to book classification to abusive review detection. AWS will contribute code and improved documentation as well as invest in the ecosystem around MXNet. AWS and Support for Deep Learning Frameworks.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Well, it’s simply an apt allegory when it comes to dealing with tests in a code base. These traps might feel like an unexpected ambush when you’re working on a code base, especially when doing so for a long time. They test units of code together, looking at their interaction. Integration tests have a broader scope.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Between an endless amount of code to make sure you’re providing full coverage and dealing with the fragile nature of front-end tests — where a simple selector change can completely break an end-to-end workflow — it can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. They’re all testing the code. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. Jump to the workshop ?. You need to adapt your scraper’s code for a specific system , and if you use the same script on a new kind of page, you’d have to rewrite parts of it. Online, and live. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Or perhaps there is no mistake on our end at all, and it’s a system bug that’s absolutely out of our control. When large parts of the interface are disabled , most customers will assume that the system is busy , and some process is happening in the background on the page. Or we’ve overlooked some fine print somewhere.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Why Thing Get Stuck After Discovery?

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