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Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

Dynatrace

Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. More seamless handoffs between tasks in the toolchain can improve DevOps efficiency, software development innovation, and better code quality. They need automated DevOps practices.

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Speeding Up Async Snippets

CSS Wizardry

The reason they give us this cumbersome snippet, and not a much more succinct , is purely historical: async snippets are a legacy performance hack. Generally speaking, blocking files are worse for performance, especially when hosted on someone else’s origin. Well, unfortunately, this performance polyfill is bad for performance.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Organizations can customize quality gate criteria to validate technical service-level objectives (SLOs) and business goals, ensuring early detection and resolution of code deficiencies. Ultimately, quality gates safeguard code viability as it advances through the delivery pipeline. But how do they function in practice?

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Site-Speed Topography Remapped

CSS Wizardry

This is an update to my 2020 article Site-Speed Topography. Around two and a half years ago, I debuted my Site-Speed Topography technique for getting broad view of an entire site’s performance from just a handful of key URLs and some readily available metrics. What Is Site-Speed Topography? Optimise the work not done.

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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index. Identify Page Types.

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DevOps orchestration breaks quality-speed stalemate in SDLC

Dynatrace

DevOps orchestration is essential for development teams struggling to balance speed with quality. They struggle to accelerate development cycles, and code quality can suffer. They may also work with a variety of tools that create a fragmented, siloed, and manual environment that slows innovation and impedes code quality.

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Radically speed up your code by fixing slow or frequent garbage collection

Dynatrace

— Excerpt from How Garbage Collection works in the Dynatrace Performance eBook) . However, garbage collection is one of the main sources of performance and scalability issues in any modern Java application. Optimize your code by finding and fixing the root cause of garbage collection problems.

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