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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Now open Safari.

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Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. A contributor develops software and makes it available under an open source license for others to contribute to, improve, and expand. Above all, when developers use code that others have developed and vetted it saves time and money.

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network?

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Evaluating the Evaluation: A Benchmarking Checklist

Brendan Gregg

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

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Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. A contributor develops software and makes it available under an open source license for others to contribute to, improve, and expand. Above all, when developers use code that others have developed and vetted it saves time and money.

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Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. A contributor develops software and makes it available under an open source license for others to contribute to, improve, and expand. Above all, when developers use code that others have developed and vetted it saves time and money.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. To properly secure applications, developers need to discover and eliminate these vulnerabilities. To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. Network scanners.