Wed.Jun 13, 2018

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Effective Standards Work, Part 2: Threading the Needle

Alex Russell

The web standards process fails us too often. This series explores the forces at work, how we’re improving the situation, and how you can shape new features more effectively. “Part 1: The Lay of The Land” discussed persistent challenges in standards and forces that give rise to misunderstandings. It also described the ecosystem dynamics that make change difficult, even before considering the varying firm-level strategies of browser vendors.

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Mapping Volumes Or Passing Environment Variables To Containerized Docker Applications

The Polyglot Developer

If you’ve ever worked with Docker containers you’ve probably been exposed to them being stateless, meaning when a container is destroyed, all record of it is lost including any files it might have created. Not great if you’re working with say a database, correct? However, let’s look at this from a different angle. Let’s say you are deploying a web application that requires some configuration.

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First Input Delay shows how quickly your site responds to user interaction

Speed Curve

We're excited to announce the availability of the First Input Delay metric as part of LUX , SpeedCurve's RUM product. First Input Delay (FID) was developed by Google to capture how quickly websites respond to user interaction. It's fairly simple to implement: We add event handlers for click, mousedown, keydown, pointerdown, and touchstart. When the user first interacts with the page in one of those ways, we measure the time between when the event happened and when the event handler was actually

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Why You Need to Monitor Your Site for Performance

Gtmetrix

We walk you through all the reasoning behind monitoring your website with GTmetrix, complete with real-world examples and data.