Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

Apart from networking, attending conferences like LISA in person is an effective way to upgrade your skills: you can block out work interruptions and absorb new knowledge that's been neatly summarized into sessions. We first met each other at LISA, in addition to making many other important industry connections over the years.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

Apart from networking, attending conferences like LISA in person is an effective way to upgrade your skills: you can block out work interruptions and absorb new knowledge that's been neatly summarized into sessions. We first met each other at LISA, in addition to making many other important industry connections over the years.

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. When using tools like the Chrome Web Vitals extension, it’s important to enable CPU and network throttling to get a more realistic experience. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Large preview ) For context, I am currently working at a software development company called Q Agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. for the web app, Sanity CMS, Firebase Auth, and Firestore database.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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