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Speeding Up Async Snippets

CSS Wizardry

If you’ve been a web developer for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve more likely than not come across an async snippet before. The first thing I find most surprising is that the majority of developers I encounter do not know how this works, what it does, or why we do it. createElement ( ' script ' ); script. create a element….

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Re-imagining your DevOps tools to build a next generation delivery platform

Dynatrace

Many organizations that have integrated their software development and operations into DevOps practices struggle with efficiency because they’re juggling disparate DevOps tools, or their tools aren’t meeting their needs. Here at Dynatrace, we started off with a big focus on automation and speeding up delivery.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

His favorite TV shows: Ozark, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Barry, and Chernobyl Since I joined Netflix back in 2011, my favorite project has been designing and building the first version of our entertainment knowledge graph. I started my career as an application developer with basic familiarity with SQL.

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Game changing — From zero to Autonomous Cloud Management today

Dynatrace

In 2011 Dynatrace saw the digital shift early on and transitioned from delivering software through a traditional on-premise model to the successful hybrid-SaaS innovator we are today. Embracing disruption and sparking innovation — the new way. This releases quality improvements faster and serves customers in near real-time.

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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. PHP is a group of people, a community of developers who build things for the web.

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Speeding up Linux kernel builds with ccache

Nick Desaulniers

ccache , the compiler cache, is a fantastic way to speed up build times for C and C++ code that I previously recommended. Recently, I was playing around with trying to get it to speed up my Linux kernel builds, but wasn’t seeing any benefit. That, and this LKML post from the KBUILD maintainer in 2011 about determinism.

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