Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. One of the most surprising results has been the frequent occurrence of “ambush by JavaScript” : We need a new term for the business-opportunity wastage that modern front-end development has created. Setting A Baseline.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Over years, this article has evolved into a book – please visit Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing website to download]. In this article we are trying to take a more rigorous approach and provide a systematic view of econometric models and objective functions that can leverage data analysis to make more automated decisions.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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. For most of the past decade, I have spent a considerable fraction of my professional life consulting with teams building on the web. It is not going well.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1). HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1). These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-09T11:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). This is more in-depth and technical.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Browser developer tools keep evolving, with new and improved features added all the time. So, my goal with this article is to raise awareness on some of the newest features in Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox and Safari. The Chrome DevTools team has been hard at work modernizing their (now 13 years old) codebase. Patrick Brosset.

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