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Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch

Smashing Magazine

Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. Then, I became intrigued by his design process, how he sketched layouts, arranged them into spreads, and created a rhythm which flowed through his magazines. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal.

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The Future Of Frontend Build Tools

Smashing Magazine

From the developer’s perspective, frontend tooling gives us: the ability to author modules, a dev server for local development, Hot Module Replacement (HMR) for a shorter feedback loop in development mode, the ability to target legacy browsers with polyfills, processing a host of filetypes apart from JavaScript, the list goes on.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

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How To Fix Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issues

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. See my previous article on this subject for more details on this upcoming innovation and more resources on that. Large preview ). Initial Templates For Client-side Rendered Pages. Large preview ). Large preview ). More Resources.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. The future of HTTP/2 server push.

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Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization

Smashing Magazine

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. Some Areas To Consider.

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How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

Despite innovations that speed up how we deliver JavaScript to the browser (minifying, compression, distributing, code-splitting, async, defer), executing the code once it’s in the browser is constrained by the fact that JavaScript is a single-threaded language — only one script can run at a time. The Architecture Behind Partytown.

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