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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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Android Device Testing: A No-hassle Guide For Testers

Testsigma

Owing to the wide market range of Android apps, an average user has plenty of other alternatives and if we have to retain our existing customer base and attract new users, our apps have to perform without any snag. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

After seeing companies struggle to find and fix frontend performance issues, Billy left HP and founded Zoompf, a web performance optimization company acquired by Rigor in 2015. Steve is the creator of many performance tools and services including YSlow , the HTTP Archive , Episodes , SpriteMe , ControlJS , and Browserscope.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. JavaScript stresses single-core performance (remember, it’s inherently more single-threaded than the rest of the Web Platform) and is CPU bound. Decent , with Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Samsung Internet being on board.