Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Explore how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

For example, later in this article, we’ll be developing a web toy that flips a webpage upside down making it readable for Australians. When developing locally, it can be a pain to simulate wildcard domains and we’ll be touching on this a fair bit later on in this article but it is something important to keep in mind. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is a great direction, as videos are more engaging than still photos ( videos can double conversion rate and increase time spent on site ), and as such, can really draw customers to explore details about products and services. To make it easier to stream video, there are APIs (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Explore how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? By tapping into built-in RUM APIs such as Navigation Timing , Resource Timing , Paint Timing , Long Tasks , etc.,

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. We are hosted on Google Cloud Platform, and the Google Cloud CDN requires that the Cache-Control header contains “public”. When the first version of the site was launched, I’d built it with PHP, MySQL, and XMLHttpRequest.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

I’m sure we’ve all clicked on an article, started reading, and then had the text jump around as images, advertisements, and other content is loaded. CrUX is also available as a free API to get more precise figures for those percentages. header 'Accept: application/json'. header 'Content-Type: application/json'.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. Back in 2017 we built the entire site with Preact, but then have moved to React in 2019 — and use it along with a few APIs for search, comments, authentication and checkout. We had to fix that.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

and selectively serve the right content type based on the requesting User-Agent and Accept headers. For more insight, see this Web.dev article. See the great tips in the article Optimizing Video For Size And Quality. Alternatively, create variants like WebM, AVIF, JPEG-XL, HEIC, etc. You can check a sample page for a demo.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Zuul redirects the user call to the API /login endpoint. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. Zuul sends the Cookies back to the Netflix client. However, this introduced another layer of complexity?—?how

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Compound components help developers build more expressive and flexible APIs to share state and logic within components. This tutorial explains how this can be achieved with the help of using the Context API and React to build components by using this advanced pattern. What Is A Compound Component? More after jump! Let’s fix that!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. Food UX explores the link between gastronomy and user experience design.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Notice that ​​ for a FlushFileBuffers API call, ​​ the NTFS file ​​ system issues a write for all dirty pages in the file cache and then invokes IRP_MJ_FLUSH_BUFFERS to make sure that all disk caches are flushed. Torn Page The read resulted in a torn bits failure.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Since the introduction of the REST API on WordPress, it can be used in a headless way, allowing developers to use it as a backend and having the front-end in a different project. Meanwhile, the front-end only interacts with the REST API via an HTTP client. Take some time to explore the sections on the left sidebar.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Not to be confused with the synchronous behavior of the API/ABI invocations.

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. TCL Windows API used for command-line and CPU agent functionality on Windows. Functionality. Clearlooks. Pure Tcl Modules.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In this article, we are going to build a blog with Next.js After reading this article, you will be able to add many kinds of content to a single Next.js This article assumes basic familiarity with Next.js. We won’t cover styling in this article and focus on making it all work instead. We can now explore our site.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide. We will explore those features, the associated challenges and help you choose a headless CMS to satisfy your organization’s unique requirements. RESTful and GraphQL APIs. Look out for: Preview APIs from the vendor. Native SDKs.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). This has led to many articles claiming that QUIC also doesn’t use congestion control, that QUIC can instead start sending data at a much higher rate over UDP (relying on the removal of HOL blocking to deal with packet loss), that this is why QUIC is much faster than TCP.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This implementation is considerably simplified when using image CDN’s where the Accept Header and content negotiation (e.g. Browsers that support a specific format can announce it by adding the format to their Accept Request Header. Note: Image CDNs are mentioned a few times in this article. Why Do We Need Modern Formats?

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