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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

CSS Wizardry

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. how long it takes for a bit of data to travel across the network from one node or endpoint to another. a CDN) or mitigating network overhead (e.g. Bandwidth is defined as…. Latency is defined as….

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Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce

Smashing Magazine

From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access. Hydrogen fuels dynamic commerce by uniting React Server Components, streaming server-side rendering, and smart caching controls.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

As a digital nomad, Vitaly travels all over the world giving inspiring talks and leading top-flight workshops at tech conferences. One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. Ilya Grigorik.

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Symphonia at Velocity 2018, and more Serverless Insights

The Symphonia

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. Unlike the temperature outside. John and I (Mike) have had a fun three months.

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STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity

The Morning Paper

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. Today’s choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, and recommended to me by John Allspaw – thank you John! Workshop context. Six themes.

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