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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Jump to online workshops ?. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. Initially, we loaded it from our server. Large preview ).

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

As a digital nomad, Vitaly travels all over the world giving inspiring talks and leading top-flight workshops at tech conferences. Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.”