Thu.Feb 27, 2020

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

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. We’ve covered PageSpeed Insights in-depth , but there are some key differences between the two.

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Gandalf: an intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for safe deployment in cloud-scale infrastructure

The Morning Paper

Gandalf: an intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for safe deployment in cloud-scale infrastructure , Li et al., NSDI’20. Modern software systems at scale are incredibly complex ever changing environments. Despite all the pre-deployment testing you might employ, this makes it really tough to change them with confidence. Thus it’s common to use some form of phased rollout, monitoring progress as you go, with the idea of rolling back a change if it looks like it’s causing pro

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A Day in the Life of a… Solution Consultant

Tasktop

Meet Matt Tilney, a Solution Consultant at Tasktop, and our only employee located in Australia! We spoke to Matt about his favourite Tasktop memory, which includes Rock Band, and what it’s like to work in a completely different timezone. . How do you start your day before work? The first thing to consider is that I not only work remotely geographically, but also in relation to time zones, which means my day starts after or at the end of most others.