Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Mariana Macedo. 2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-27T10:16:44+00:00. The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behavior. You most likely think that the buttons might be too small or you need to change the color, font, or position.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Why do you need to engage in testing a mobile application? Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time.

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Tasktop

MAY 27, 2021

There is always so much to do, it’s hard to prioritize a big undertaking like this. There is always so much to do, it’s hard to prioritize a big undertaking like this. And as a manager and value stream lead, you owe it to both to expect — and enable — high performance. For Jeff there were a few telltale signs: .

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

You will need a team of content writers who can conduct in-depth research before writing on a particular topic. Search engine optimization is undoubtedly one of the best digital marketing approaches. It has carved a niche for itself by offering a wide range of benefits to businesses. The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4%

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Tasktop

JULY 19, 2021

With this holistic end-to-end view, leadership and teams can work together to remove the impediments impacting their customer responsiveness and pivotability on an ongoing basis. As we continue to waft through the fog in the post-pandemic world, we know one thing to be true: software is the dividing line between success and failure.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO well means open communication between different members of the team — from SEO execs to writers to developers. Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Get Ready: A Healthy Mindset. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment. Quick Wins.

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Rigor

MAY 29, 2019

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Why pay for a conference (airfare!

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

And why are those who comment on them so sure the end is nigh for WebKit? Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Gentle reader, I made a terrible mistake. At my age, one knows better.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Why Having A Routine Is Important. It also helps ease the tension that comes with the regular demands of life and the hecticness of some of the tough mathematical calculations and creativity-based activities we get engaged in as programmers. Dave Oscar. 2021-10-16T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-20T15:08:17+00:00. Which demand, you ask?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Testsigma

JULY 31, 2021

To secure their quality and to help you deliver delightful experiences to your users and ones that’ll keep your users engaged with your products — testing is essential. But here’s the thing: some automation testing tools are low on maintenance, and while the setup is expensive, the ROI is high. Allow us to explain.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

She gets along fine with her immediate team and manager, who understand her personality. Many of us have worked with them: the engineering jerk who is brilliant at what they do, but treats others like trash. There's also the "[No A **e Rule]", popularized by a bestselling book of this title, which provides the following [test]: 1.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Part of the vulnerability here is that it hasn't always been clear what the architect's deliverables are. Part of the vulnerability here is that it hasn't always been clear what the architect's deliverables are. A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For most of the past decade, I have spent a considerable fraction of my professional life consulting with teams building on the web. Not only are new services being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, existing experiences are pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. It is not going well.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this article, I will introduce the subject of competitive analysis , which is basically a method to determine how well your competitors are performing. It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 30, 2013

But the magic left the development team years ago: it had been gutted by several rounds of staff cuts that took the garrulous personalities and innovative thinkers. The sales team was larger than it had ever been, but it had struggled. Company leadership eventually formed a product management team, staffing it with existing employees.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

By Billur Engin , Yinghong Lan , Grace Tang , Cristina Segalin , Kelli Griggs , Vi Iyengar Introduction At Netflix, we want our viewers to easily find TV shows and movies that resonate and engage. Our creative team helps make this happen by designing promotional artwork that best represents each title featured on our platform.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

Perform 2020 is now a memory. Perform 2020 is now a memory. Dynatrace news. At Dynatrace, we strive to deliver an outstanding user experience not only within the product, but also in customer support, chat, as well as in all self-service resources we provide to you 24/7. Our Community forum is one of these resources.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Engagement. The three known bottlenecks of every email sequence: deliverability, display issues, and engagement. While there’s always something to be improved, it’s important to understand when you underperform and need to take action right away. The three known bottlenecks of every email sequence include: Deliverability.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

There's much to cheer, but we also need to talk about why this mega-release is happening now, and what it means for the future. If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you undoubtedly got word of last week's big Safari 16.4 WebKit's Roaring Twenties Good Things Come In Sixes What Changed? Regardless, Safari 16.4

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Earlier we shared the details of one of these algorithms , introduced how our platform team is evolving the media-specific machine learning ecosystem , and discussed how data from these algorithms gets stored in our annotation service. One of the best ways to tell an engaging story is through the mouths of the characters.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

As more and more consumers are using mobile apps to engage with their favorite brands and services, the expectation that businesses provide a perfect mobile experience 24/7 also increases. The key to accomplishing both these goals is having effective mobile app monitoring that quickly identifies the root cause of performance issues.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

To that end, it’s important that we prevent significant performance regressions from reaching the production app. Any performance regression that makes it into a product release will degrade user experience, so the challenge is to detect and fix such regressions before they ship. What do we mean by Performance?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. Imagine yourself as someone with a visual disability. Cataracts, or totally blind even. errors per page. errors per page.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

When you work on a browser, you will often hear remarks along the lines of, Why don't you just put [popular framework] in the browser? This is a good question — or at least one that illuminates how browser teams think about tradeoffs. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability.

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Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

You try to break anything you try new, you are skeptical and perform some testing yourself to see if anything new works fine! It is probably one of the most challenging roles of a software team with a broad mix of multiple responsibilities and involves being a customer advocate right from the start. Were you an accidental tester?

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Nobody wants to do bad work, but until they know what it is they're trying to do — or if they don't know why they're doing it — how do they know that they're doing good work? If you don't know why, you don't know you're good. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. The JavaScript Tax.

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Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

But why is Flutter becoming the ‘eye candy” of business organizations and are tech developers? If you hear tech enthusiasts highlighting that Flutter app development is at the peak of gaining tremendous traction, then it may not be a false statement. The open-source UI toolkit has been recording intense popularity among app developers.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

As always, the devil's in the footnotes, but the top-line remains the same: when we construct a digital world to the limits of the best devices, we build a less usable web for the vast majority of humans who cannot afford iPhones or $800 Samsung flagships. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I know those of us who might work in larger companies will have whole teams of colleagues who are doing ops. And a lot of the core ideas and concepts from DevOps come from the old world where dev and ops were always adversarial, where there was this constant conflict. One team is incentivized to push changes. Show Notes.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

” It all makes for a highly engaging position paper (even if that engagement doesn’t necessarily take the form of agreement on all points)! .” ” It all makes for a highly engaging position paper (even if that engagement doesn’t necessarily take the form of agreement on all points)!

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

bank to illustrate how billions can be squandered on transformation without reaping or measuring the benefits, Mik asked the audience to consider why they’re building software delivery in the first place. I’ve traveled the world asking business executives how do they measure the value of software delivery,” began Mik.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To understand what RPA is, why it matters, and why it’s garnered so much interest , you have to understand the case of “Maddie.” Unlike humans, a software robot doesn’t get tired, bored, or distracted, especially when its performing a tedious or repetitive task. RPA explained. Full disclosure: Maddie is a fictional person.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Build evolvable systems.

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