Alex Russell

JUNE 15, 2015

This eventual adding-up of new technologies changes how we build and deliver experiences. Markup and styling for accessibility, both to humans and search engines. How does one deploy to all of these stores all at once? How does the need to package everything up-front change your assumptions and infrastructure?

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The web can interrupt this model by bringing portability to apps and over-the-top discovery through search. From that vantage point, it's often news that the web is significantly more capable on other OSes (never mind that they spend much of every day working in a desktop browser). This has yet to happen because.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 5, 2016

Feedback like Ada’s , Andrew’s , and Jeremy’s is helpful in letting us know how to improve. The prompting solution to PWA discovery was our first, worst guess at how to communicate to users that they are on a site that can act like an app. They can’t fire me for encouraging smart folks to work here, right?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Last year we wrote a blog post about how Data Mesh helped our Studio team enable data movement use cases. Once deployed, the pipeline performs the actual heavy lifting data processing work. A sink processor writes data to an external system such as Iceberg, ElasticSearch, or a separate discoverable Kafka topic.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what exactly our performance bottlenecks are? And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? Or the search bot crawling rate (PDF, pages 27–50). How to get there?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. Consumer schema Consumer schema defines how data is consumed by the downstream processors.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? Explore how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? How to get there? Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word].

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

When you run npx create-next-app , you will have a folder structure like the following (this is also how most examples are structured): /public logo.gif /src /lib /hooks useForm.js /api content.js /components Header.js But if you are not careful and start banging out code without thinking about design, you might end up with a big ball of mud.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

How often do you use them? If you need to test how a different font size will impact your layout, Text Resizer helps you to see what exactly happens with increased or decreased font sizes. How do you usually handle annotations when working with Figma? You can also find a detailed guide on how to use the plugin.

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