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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. “Coping with complexity” is about as good a three-word summary of the systems and software challenges facing us over the next decade as I can imagine. Workshop context. Go overdrawn (i.e.,

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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. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. Bandwidth is defined as….

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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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Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Smashing Magazine

We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. Throughout the workshop, I was diligently taking notes and revisiting the codebase. Once the workshop was over, we got to work. Identifying The Bottlenecks.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. The BIPA has moved their Learning Management System to AWS, reducing costs by over 90%.

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