CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Why This Is a Problem.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Whether you’re building a complex web application or a simple website, understanding how to leverage Web Workers can help you improve performance and provide a better user experience.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. A later version of the slides is included in my Microservices Workshop deck from later that year, slides 168–200 ( pdf , keynote are available in GitHub.com/adrianco/slides ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Network Configuration.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our growth team advertises on social media platforms and other websites to share news about upcoming titles and new product features, with the ultimate goal of growing the number of Netflix members worldwide. We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. What’s the tradeoff of using those?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. Harry Roberts ran his (excellent) Web Performance Masterclass as an online workshop with us, and throughout the entire workshop, he was using Smashing as an example by highlighting issues that we had and suggesting solutions to those issues alongside useful tools and guidelines.

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