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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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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

CSS Wizardry

Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. If I wanted to speed up the delivery of these images, I am unlikely to get any real gains through optimising them further. To help demystify it, look at the Server Timing API. ↩ Latency is defined as…. and reduction in latency.

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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. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. But what is a Jamstack?

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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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Next.js Wildcard Subdomains

Smashing Magazine

We’ll be focusing on three places where you can get the wildcard: Server Side In getServerSideProps , Client Side With useEffect , Server Side On API Routes And Edge Functions. Jump to the workshop ?. Server Side In getServerSideProps. Server Side On API Routes And Edge Functions. Building With Wildcards.

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Smashing Magazine

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 ?. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. More after jump! Performance Costs.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.