All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Arts & Society. A great podcast interview.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Uses for Serverless Functions range from Newsletter signups with ConvertKit , sending an email using SendGrid , saving data in a database like Fauna , or in this case, accepting secure payments using Stripe — the list is quite frankly endless! More after jump! Your (smashing) email. Once a week. Useful tips on front-end & UX.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project. aj Dobrucki.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You may be reading the data from a database, so you need to make sure you can still access the data while running locally. One way would be to set up the database locally on your machine. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Here’s an example from Google developers of opening a database, adding an object store, and adding an item to this store. After this, you can create cached content with the IndexedDB API.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. App Design. At this point, the design of our app is in place. In the sidebar, click on “Firestore”, and then “Create database”. Once it loads, our database will be fully ready for us to use.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Broken data, which your team has to manually clean before it’s usable in your database. CSV importers should be designed — error messages and all — to make this a quick and painless experience for your users. For starters, this import modal is really well designed. It’s not your users’ job to think here.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. The approach was influential in the design of the SQL Sentry performance dashboard, which presents waits flanked by queues (key resource metrics) to deliver a comprehensive view of server performance. The Top Queries That Weren't.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

A common example could be how a particular part of a UI responds to interactions followed by requests to a server or database. For instance, if you ran daily pixel-by-pixel visual tests on the homepage of this site, Smashing Magazine , you’re going to get a lot of failed tests as they produce more and more content. add-to-cart').click();

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. database and outputs the game PIN as a response. database and displayed on the “Create” page. Supabase makes it very easy to create a PostgreSQL database and access it either via one of its client libraries or via REST. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?. and Express.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. design tokens. design systems. responsive design and testing. responsive design and testing. Table of Contents. accessibility.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

for the web app, Sanity CMS, Firebase Auth, and Firestore database. Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. For example, it’s probably obvious that an app for documentaries is going to be designed around video.

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

When evaluating whether it’s better for us to create our own platform, or to use a third-party service, there are some things that we should consider: Designing and creating authentication services is not our core skill. We won’t get into details like CSS styling or database usage. application. Large preview ). Create Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is important to make sure that your message looks as designed for all your recipients. Make sure that the right database is selected (or the right list of contacts in your email marketing service). They were testing some new email sequences and selected their real email database instead of a testing list.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

CrUX is a cloud-based database into which Real User Measurements (RUM) are collected from live Chrome browser sessions. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. When possible, I would prefer frameworks that have a higher good performance ratio. More after jump!

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Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

When evaluating whether it’s better for us to create our own platform, or to use a third-party service, there are some things that we should consider: Designing and creating authentication services is not our core skill. We won’t get into details like CSS styling or database usage. application. Large preview ). Create Next.js

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Serverless Servers Programming Database 64

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. A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages. SEO is key to our success.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers written by Matthew Talebi. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers written by Nataliya Sambir. But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Attainable DevOps. Weekly Update.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

In this decoupled way, models and controllers are bundled on the WordPress side , handling data manipulation and database interaction. Constantly improving the user experience (UX) and design (UI) for you, so that content creators and developers feel comfortable creating new fields, components or pages.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

The term “component” is often used to refer both to functionality and design. Note : Brad Frost’s “ Atomic Design ” is a great methodology for identifying these common patterns and building a reusable design system. Brad Frost identifies five distinct levels in atomic design for creating design systems.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

When it comes down to how WordPress is programmed, one thing is certain: it doesn’t follow the M odel- V iew- C ontroller (MVC) design pattern that many developers are familiar with. This will be run on the save_post hook and will overwrite the transient in the database with the JSON data of our post. Security concerns. Transients API.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Definitions. Media Files.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s easier to set up your content on a traditional CMS as everything you need (content management, design, etc) are already available. An API-driven headless CMS designed to create, manage and distribute content to any platform. Traditional CMS Cons. Traditional CMS e.g Gridsome, Gatsby). Mobile Apps (iOS, Android). Contentful.

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It’s the reason why I was able to become a developer, but every time someone visits a WordPress site out of the box, it has to make a call to a database, grabs some content, mash it into some templates, generate HTML and ship that back to the browser. I built my career on WordPress.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. The useMemo hook is designed to memoize expensive computations. To simplify things here, we’ll be using the Redux Toolkit library with our fake database from JSONPlaceholder. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?. The useMemo Hook.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Each of the aspects listed above could be full-time jobs on their own (at Smashing Magazine we’ve published enough articles on them to know), so the value of assistive tools is undeniable. These include: Infrastructure. Content management. Security and privacy. Deployment. Maintenance. Business solutions. Search engine optimization.

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Development Website Media Open Source 99

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Tom Greenwood’s book, Sustainable Web Design is packed with advice for building low-carbon websites.

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