Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Certifications, typically, are proof of the enhanced prowess in the stream for which the course has been taken. Certifications and Courses help validate as well as enhance our technical capability in a specific vertical. A lot of these tools also need a fair amount of time to be invested in learning courses and doing certifications.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. High-performance analytics—no indexing required. Work with different and independent data types. Grail architectural basics.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ten years is a lot of time to reflect, and over this past year our team has been thinking a lot about not just the "what" and "how" of web performance, but also the "why". In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. Among other things, we turned ten ! Learn more here.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-10T08:00:00+00:00. Don’t worry!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This methodology combines software design, development, automation, operations, and analytics to boost customer experience, increase application security, and reduce downtime that affects business outcomes. Today, software development teams are responsible for delivering applications that are secure, high performing and user-friendly.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00. That’s okay.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. As developers move to microservice-centric designs, components are broken into independent services to be developed, deployed, and maintained separately. Faster performance. Too tightly coupled.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? Thomas Bohm.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. This over-confidence didn’t last long though, because when I arrived, I found myself surrounded by conceptual artists, filmmakers, painters, performance artists, printmakers, and sculptors, who all seemed much more talented than I was.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 1, 2023

Of course, as a developer, you have to prefer the best framework to develop apps faster. Faster Development Time With the help of no-code development, the time for app design would be doubled. Of course, the developers have to notice the performance rate and development time.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Reading time 9 min When it comes to managing web performance, it’s vital to be proactive rather than reactive. To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. The first step is to establish and implement web performance budgets.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

To make sure that Percona Backup for MongoDB answers the pains of our customers, we took the common denominator of the pains that anyone using snapshot capabilities faces when performing backups and restores and positioned PBM as the open source, freely available answer to those pains. Now why Technical Preview, you may ask?

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That said, GIFs can drag down a web page’s performance, especially if not optimized. Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. Why Speed Up GIF Animations? You should also think about supporting newer formats like WebP.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Instead, failing over is, in fact, not a single action but a collection of discrete steps that must be performed in an exact and precise manner. The challenge, of course, is reconstituting the logical replication process as quickly as possible, ideally without any data loss. And, of course, timing is critical.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Particular Software

MARCH 1, 2021

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 The hidden cost However, there’s another component to transport cost that doesn’t get talked about enough, and that is the cost paid in serialization and deserialization.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2019

These excellent tools are built for purpose, such as planning, design, development, testing, service desk and so on, and enable specialists teams to do their jobs more efficiently and collaboratively. The post Architect your software delivery value stream for speed and quality with integration patterns appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. With these settings, we will be able to get better parallelization and speed on the slave, but if there are too many parallel threads, the overhead involved in coordinating between the threads will also increase and can unfortunately offset the benefits. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 11, 2019

View-centric performance optimization for database-backed web applications Yang et al., The problem set-up in this paper discusses the importance of keeping web page load times low as a fundamental contributor to user satisfaction (See e.g. ‘ Why performance matters ’). on average, and up to 38x. Introducing Panorama.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This has revolutionized the industry, providing winemakers with full visibility into the performance of the crop and where they can make powerful adjustments to produce superior grapes. An eCommerce leader in designer menswear. With a shift to focusing on digital channels, availability and performance are key to business success.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As an app developer analyzing a crash detected by Dynatrace, you can see the sequence of steps that were performed by the user along with the crash stack trace: With this information in hand, you can immediately see in which method the error occurred. Understand the root cause of a crash by reproducing it with Session Replay.

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