Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We were busy not only with performance and UX optimizations though. New Online Workshops on Smashing.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started. Unoptimized, full-size JPEG is around 1.2

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

In the six months since I’ve received feedback from my own workshops and other people’s workshops about ways to improve the canvas. If you prefer to learn the Bounded Context Canvas in a group setting, you can attend my workshop at the upcoming Domain-Driven Design Europe conference. Here is V2 of the canvas.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Recent reports by Forrester, GigaOm and Research In Action signal that the new era of managing IT is truly underway, as VSM helps IT leaders urgently seek to better align their software delivery with business outcomes and strategy. VSM Workshops and More With The Flow Institute . The new VSM roles emerging. Subscribe now.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The huge popularity of value stream management (VSM) in software delivery — Forrester, GigaOm and Research In Action have published reports on the market in recent months— stems from its ability to help IT leaders to better align their software delivery with business outcomes and strategy. Register for a Value Stream Management Workshop.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A telecom giant changing its outsourcing strategy to negotiate better terms with its service partners. Learn more about becoming a high-performing tech company on The Flow Institute website. A leading U.S healthcare leader doubling its feature velocity. Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the right set of business-centric metrics that focus on the flow of work across the product value stream, IT and business leaders can leverage objective real-time data to identify the bottlenecks slowing them down, inform investment strategy, and measure the impact of changes to steer them in the right direction. To paraphrase W.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. Run Regular Design Katas and Internal Workshops Design katas are an excellent way to build up an appreciation for design, both at the code and architectural level. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

CSS-in-JS can also have a performance impact by causing additional renders and dependencies on the global state. Recommended reading : “ The Unseen Performance Costs Of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries In React Apps )” by Aggelos Arvanitakis. support doing so with no additional setup; it also yields results that are performant and static.

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

Creates a modular, Agile toolchain: Software innovators require a best-of-breed tool strategy. Creates a modular, Agile toolchain: Software innovators require a best-of-breed tool strategy. This two-day hands-on workshop shows you how to enable flow in your organization using lean practices. Learn more. Learn more.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Rob also takes a look at the accessibility and performance implications that shadows bring along, as well as how to animate them. Ahmad’s strategies on achieving the cut-out effect. Jump to the workshop ?. Improving Image Performance With image-set(). A great read to help you improve image performance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The key to successful hiring requires a different strategy: a list of strict requirements and versatile aspects to assess. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Will the incremental strategy of delivering pattern matching and algebraic data types ( Project Amber ) pay off? Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Management textbooks dating at least as far back as the 1980s included stories of employees performing tasks the reasons for which they didn't really understand. There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. This month, we look at our options for re-acquiring it.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Part 2: CSS Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. What’s the current performance of key database queries and stored procedures?

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. For example, are we talking about a manual process performed by one employee or one thousand employees? and “How long does it take?” How Often Does this Happen?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. Jump to the workshop ?. The Problem With Traditional Approaches.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Coordinating efforts across departments may be difficult and time-consuming at first so that support from the top will help alleviate the pressures and burnout that can happen when taking on the task of creating and implementing an accessibility strategy. Have A Team Or Individual Who Is Your Accessibility Advocate(s).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. That code wrapping your API requests might perform perfectly with some mocked data. Jump to the workshop ?. A lot of platforms are using pixel-by-pixel visual testing to perform checks. Unit Testing. add-to-cart').click(); click(); cy.url().should('contain',

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jump to the workshop ?. Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” Static site generators have several strategies to address long build times , including build caching, incremental builds, dynamic persistent rendering, and website sharding.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

A few of the technically-focused heuristics are: Align with existing architecture Isolate legacy Design for replaceability Isolate by security concerns Isolate by risk / reliability Isolate by performance/scalability needs ??

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Once you create your own code of ethics, you might notice an improvement not only in your team’s work and performance but also in the team’s culture as well. There truly is no right or wrong way to do this, however, following a typical ideation workshop framework will really help add rigor to the process. Credit: Devin Harold.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Jump to the workshop ?. If applicable, can we test if a design without disabled buttons performs better? In Designing The Perfect Web Forms , Vitaly will dive into everything web forms, from disabled buttons to inline validation. Online, and live. Aug 18 & 20, 2021. Inline Validation Is Never Bulletproof. Part Of: Design Patterns.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. then this final piece includes all you need to know to get started! Tools and Testing.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Subsequently, the problem of coordinating multiple teams arises, each with their own backlog and performance goals to achieve. If you still want more, join me and Kacper for our Sociotechnical DDD training courses at Skillsmatter in London or contact me for private workshop or consulting enquiries.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The answer is performance, but more importantly concurrency conflicts. With an understanding of the performance and concurrency implications of enforcing Invariant Business Rules we can ask the business, what would happen if a patient booked two appointments on the same day or a reschedule wasn’t instantly provided?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As always, team communication and a consistent strategy are key to ensuring all bases are covered when it comes to web accessibility. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To understand the validity of our causal claims, we perform sensitivity analyses to evaluate the robustness of our findings. Sitting at the intersection of content creation and product development, data scientists in this space face some unique challenges: Predicting evidence performance. Beyond average treatment effects.

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