Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

To that end, it’s important that we prevent significant performance regressions from reaching the production app. Any performance regression that makes it into a product release will degrade user experience, so the challenge is to detect and fix such regressions before they ship. What do we mean by Performance?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

We interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement. For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Our brains interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement. For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Print + eBook.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Nobody wants to do bad work, but until they know what it is they're trying to do — or if they don't know why they're doing it — how do they know that they're doing good work? If you don't know why, you don't know you're good. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. In the next post we’ll look at the detailed analysis of how a team at Etsy handled a particular incident on December 4th 2014, to see what we can learn from it.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

There's much to cheer, but we also need to talk about why this mega-release is happening now, and what it means for the future. If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you undoubtedly got word of last week's big Safari 16.4 WebKit's Roaring Twenties Good Things Come In Sixes What Changed? Regardless, Safari 16.4

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Or, better yet, a team. Nataliya Sambir. 2021-10-15T13:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-15T17:06:35+00:00. The two are interdependent.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

As always, the devil's in the footnotes, but the top-line remains the same: when we construct a digital world to the limits of the best devices, we build a less usable web for the vast majority of humans who cannot afford iPhones or $800 Samsung flagships. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude. you will get exactly what you pay for…low-performing software teams. As a business leader, you should be asking three questions: Why is software development more complex than I thought? What do I measure?

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Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

You try to break anything you try new, you are skeptical and perform some testing yourself to see if anything new works fine! It is probably one of the most challenging roles of a software team with a broad mix of multiple responsibilities and involves being a customer advocate right from the start. Were you an accidental tester?

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Tasktop

JULY 22, 2021

It also presents a language to help elevate conversation between teams and with leadership.” . “At At the same time, SAFe is not going to magically fix all our problems without the right mindset around why we’re changing the way we work, as well as tangibly seeing it’s improving a team’s daily work and impact on the business,” she continues.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Mariana Macedo. 2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-27T10:16:44+00:00. The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behavior. You most likely think that the buttons might be too small or you need to change the color, font, or position.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Why do you need to engage in testing a mobile application? Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time.

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Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

But why is Flutter becoming the ‘eye candy” of business organizations and are tech developers? If you hear tech enthusiasts highlighting that Flutter app development is at the peak of gaining tremendous traction, then it may not be a false statement. The open-source UI toolkit has been recording intense popularity among app developers.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. The JavaScript Tax.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

When you work on a browser, you will often hear remarks along the lines of, Why don't you just put [popular framework] in the browser? This is a good question — or at least one that illuminates how browser teams think about tradeoffs. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability.

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Tasktop

MAY 27, 2021

There is always so much to do, it’s hard to prioritize a big undertaking like this. There is always so much to do, it’s hard to prioritize a big undertaking like this. And as a manager and value stream lead, you owe it to both to expect — and enable — high performance. For Jeff there were a few telltale signs: .

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

You will need a team of content writers who can conduct in-depth research before writing on a particular topic. Search engine optimization is undoubtedly one of the best digital marketing approaches. It has carved a niche for itself by offering a wide range of benefits to businesses. The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4%

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

” It all makes for a highly engaging position paper (even if that engagement doesn’t necessarily take the form of agreement on all points)! .” ” It all makes for a highly engaging position paper (even if that engagement doesn’t necessarily take the form of agreement on all points)!

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Tasktop

JULY 19, 2021

With this holistic end-to-end view, leadership and teams can work together to remove the impediments impacting their customer responsiveness and pivotability on an ongoing basis. As we continue to waft through the fog in the post-pandemic world, we know one thing to be true: software is the dividing line between success and failure.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO well means open communication between different members of the team — from SEO execs to writers to developers. Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Get Ready: A Healthy Mindset. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Rigor

MAY 29, 2019

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Why pay for a conference (airfare!

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Build evolvable systems.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

And why are those who comment on them so sure the end is nigh for WebKit? Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Gentle reader, I made a terrible mistake. At my age, one knows better.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Why Having A Routine Is Important. It also helps ease the tension that comes with the regular demands of life and the hecticness of some of the tough mathematical calculations and creativity-based activities we get engaged in as programmers. Dave Oscar. 2021-10-16T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-20T15:08:17+00:00. Which demand, you ask?

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Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

But still, the game was received very well by the Indians of which the two main reasons were, “it looks rich in the interface” and “it has high-end graphics”. As a developer, we cannot risk skipping the android UI testing with such high competition. Android UI testing can be performed through two means: 1.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This post will cover the how, why and what around this topic. Later, I would like to add how automation has been added into this system, why it was necessary and how to use it to perform automated cross-browser testing. The process of web development has changed its meaning in the time span of twenty years ( 2000 to 2021).

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To understand what RPA is, why it matters, and why it’s garnered so much interest , you have to understand the case of “Maddie.” Unlike humans, a software robot doesn’t get tired, bored, or distracted, especially when its performing a tedious or repetitive task. RPA explained. Full disclosure: Maddie is a fictional person.

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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. Rachel Andrew.

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Testsigma

JULY 31, 2021

To secure their quality and to help you deliver delightful experiences to your users and ones that’ll keep your users engaged with your products — testing is essential. But here’s the thing: some automation testing tools are low on maintenance, and while the setup is expensive, the ROI is high. Allow us to explain.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

So, why do this? Why push through the sorts of snide comments that Henrik highlighted? Why push through the sorts of snide comments that Henrik highlighted? Why risk so much on new features when there's a never-ending list of things that need to be fixed with the existing set? And if it should, which ones?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. At first glance, the market for mobile browsers looks roughly functional. The 85% global-share OS (Android) has historically facilitated browser choice and diversity in browser engines.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

She gets along fine with her immediate team and manager, who understand her personality. Many of us have worked with them: the engineering jerk who is brilliant at what they do, but treats others like trash. There's also the "[No A **e Rule]", popularized by a bestselling book of this title, which provides the following [test]: 1.

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