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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. Rachel Andrew. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

Apart from networking, attending conferences like LISA in person is an effective way to upgrade your skills: you can block out work interruptions and absorb new knowledge that's been neatly summarized into sessions. We first met each other at LISA, in addition to making many other important industry connections over the years.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

Apart from networking, attending conferences like LISA in person is an effective way to upgrade your skills: you can block out work interruptions and absorb new knowledge that's been neatly summarized into sessions. We first met each other at LISA, in addition to making many other important industry connections over the years.

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. When using tools like the Chrome Web Vitals extension, it’s important to enable CPU and network throttling to get a more realistic experience.

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How do committees invent?

The Morning Paper

Conway, Datamation magazine 1968. The systems under discussion are not restricted to computer systems either by the way – one of example of a system is "the public transport network." How do committees invent?

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Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Alright, enough doom and gloom.

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