The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Netflix’s internal teams strive to provide leverage by investing in easy-to-use tooling that streamlines the user experience and incorporates best practices. Users frequently had questions on how they should set up replication, create tables using an appropriate compaction strategy, and craft CQL queries.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We refer to this culture and practice as observability-driven DevOps and SRE automation. Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. The collected set of metrics are queries for some timeframe. The role of observability within DevOps.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Although landing pages are a common practice in online marketing, we were trying to make the most of it. SEO is key to our success.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

From fonts to SVG: an icon migration strategy — Erwin Hofman notes that he was using icon fonts out of sheer convenience, but that there are loads of reasons not to use them. He provides details on his new strategy for using icons, which is based on the <use> technique. What does it look like to practice web performance?

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Download the eBook now What are the Common Performance Issues in MySQL Databases? An unoptimized indexing strategy can impede data insertion and retrieval operations. One effective strategy is query rewriting, where you restructure your SQL queries to be more efficient. Experiencing database performance issues?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT). You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A telecom giant changing its outsourcing strategy to negotiate better terms with its service partners. An online investment firm discovering a system bottleneck impeding digital channel innovation , t he remarkable success that organizations are witnessing with flow-based value stream metrics provides an exciting glimpse of what’s possible.

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Healthcare Innovation Government Best Practices 90

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Our perspective on VSM has been built on two decades of software delivery experience working with the most impactful organizations, with the Flow Framework® and Flow Metrics now considered best practice to execute and guide a VSM journey. Download e-book on data-driven value stream management. Value-based Measurement.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Get a free trial of LogRocket today. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. If the script evaluation needs to happen early in the page load, this is the best choice. <script

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Google's Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that are intended to focus on measuring performance from a user-experience perspective. How does page bloat hurt your business?

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). (You Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). (You Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

That's because video seems to have had a surge in growth, which should be a cause of concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. It bears repeating: excessive JS can hurt all your user-oriented performance metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. With over 56k downloads (just over a thousand per week, and growing!), Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? Strategies For Migrating To TypeScript. What Is Gatsby?

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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