CSS - Tricks

APRIL 2, 2019

Jake Archibald looks at the websites of Formula One race teams and rates their performance, carefully examining their images and digging into the waterfall of assets for each site: Trying to use a site while on poor connectivity is massively frustrating, so anything sites can do to make it less of a problem is a huge win. In terms of the device, if you look outside the tech bubble, a lot of users can't or don't want to pay for a high-end phone.

Website 74

Website Network Performance 74

Speed Curve

APRIL 2, 2019

As organizations work to improve performance for users around the world on slower networks and devices, the focus on JavaScript continues to grow. LUX's new JavaScript dashboards help to identify the problems and solutions for creating a fast, joyous user experience. LUX is SpeedCurve's real user monitoring product. We launched it two years ago with four dashboards: Live, Users, Performance, and Design.

Traffic 55

Traffic Metrics Network Mobile 55

TechBeacon Testing

APRIL 2, 2019

Moving up the ladder in testing often means more money, more fun, and having more impact. Some folks sit around and just hope it will happen. Some ask for promotions before they are ready. Some wait a decade for promotion through simple attrition.

Testing 48

Testing 48

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

Establishing software root of trust unconditionally Gligor & Woo, NDSS’19. The authors won a best paper award for this work at NDSS this year. The main result is quite something, but as you might expect the lines of argument are detailed and not always easy to follow (and certainly not critically!) for non-experts like me. I’ll use today’s write-up to convey the big ideas as I understand them.

Software 40

Software Software Programming Hardware 40