Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. You can also experiment with various workshop formats. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment.

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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. During one workshop, I asked a developer “How often does this go wrong?”. There was an industry expert consultant in the workshop.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This can become delicate when the mindsets of each teams are optimising for different things, most commonly speed vs reliability. Engineering for Speed and Reliability It shouldn’t be treated as a law that teams will clash when there is a dependency between their products, even if there is a big difference in mindset.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As software testing plays a significant role in the delivery of the final product, it is necessary to consider that the testing process must involve accurate, exhaustive test cases and firm test strategy. Complete test coverage should include scenarios on latency, speed, security, and usability. Lack of Supervision.

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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. Regardless of which diagram you subscribe to, ultimately the goal is to weigh the different options between cost and speed to determine the right fit for your particular application. Jump to the workshop ?. Unit Testing. Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jump to the workshop ?. Thanks to the build speed of static site generators like Hugo and modern Jamstack CMSs designed to handle vast amounts of content, even prominent blogs like Smashing Magazine , web.dev , and JFK International Air Terminal can take advantage of a Jamstack approach. Online, and live. Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Scraping those product pages can net you invaluable data such as: The competitors’ pricing strategy. Jump to the workshop ?. Web scrapers can gather content extremely fast, but you should avoid going at top speed. To see what your future client base cares about most and how to improve their experience; Most common features.

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

Clever Value Stream Architecture designs for speed, visibility and traceability and it relies on APIs and abstraction. 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.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver. Equally, it’s also about the quality of the work and not just the speed. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy.

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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.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

A user could see on their mobile phone screen the current and previous location of the device, the speed and direction it was moving, the health of the components on the device, and more. Fat Facades in IoT Fleet Management A group I previously worked with were designing a service to remotely monitor a fleet of devices.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

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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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. In conclusion, this means QUIC will probably not improve performance much for users on high-speed networks, but will mainly be important for those on slow and less-stable networks.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. Once the workshop was over, we got to work.

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