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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. As a part of the mobile website testing strategy, your team tests the website from different perspectives on varied mobile screen resolutions.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term. What do these findings mean in web performance terms?

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Alex Russell

Leading browsers had moved to 6-week update cadence by 2011 at the latest , routinely delivering fixes at a quick clip. No, this was a change in strategy. Google's security teams audited the colossal volume of user-generated content Google hosts for problems and did not find significant concerns.

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The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch

Alex Russell

I can count on one hand the number of teams I’ve worked with who have goals that allow them to block launches for latency regressions, including Google products. Few teams I’ve encountered have actionable metrics associated with the real experiences of their users. That unzips to roughly 2MB of script.

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Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. In 2011, the Obama campaign started using Jekyll extensively to power their fundraising platform. At the core, a traditional CMS is a monolith. Lastly, owning an enterprise CMS is a costly affair.

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