CSS Wizardry

JUNE 11, 2018

This year, I’ve been working closely with the wonderful Coingaming team out in beautiful Tallinn. We’ve been working pretty hard on making their suite of online products much faster , and I’ve been the technical consultant leading the project. It’s been an incredibly fun and rewarding engagement, and we’ve made some real business- and customer-facing improvements.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Scaling fake ratings. A 5 star 10,000 phone Chinese click farm. ( English Russia ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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Allen Holub

JUNE 10, 2018

As is the case with many of the people who actually know what they’re talking about, I’ve come to shudder when I hear the word “Agile,” at least until I can figure whether the person who uttered the word actually knows what they’ve just said. More often than not, they don’t.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. As a software security evaluator and a one-time engineer, I can confirm what the daily security breaches are telling us: software engineers and architects regularly fail at building in sufficient security and privacy. As someone who has been on both sides of this table, I’d like to share some of my own security-related engineering sins and provide some practical advice for both engineers and security officers on how best to balanc

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Alex Russell

JUNE 12, 2018

The web standards process fails us too often. This series explores the forces at work, how we’re improving the situation, and how you can shape new features more effectively. “Why don’t browsers match standards!” muttered the thoughtful developer (just before filing an issue at crbug.com ). “The point of standards is so that everything works the same.” Once something is in The Standard, everyone will implement interoperably…right?

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Speed Curve

JUNE 10, 2018

This may sound counter-intuitive, but we don't want you to spend countless hours using SpeedCurve. In fact, our goal is to make your web performance data so accessible, understandable, and actionable that you can get everything you need from us in just a few minutes. That's why we're so excited to announce the brand-new Status dashboard – a visualization that lets you see at a glance all your web performance budgets, as well as which budgets have been violated.

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Website Optimization

JUNE 14, 2018

Last time we explored the option of using experiments to optimize your PPC campaigns in Google Adwords. This time we put that knowledge to the test. In this article we show how to improve an existing call only campaign with a lowball enhanced CPC bid strategy (ECPC).

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Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

The web standards process fails us too often. This series explores the forces at work, how we’re improving the situation, and how you can shape new features more effectively. “Part 1: The Lay of The Land” discussed persistent challenges in standards and forces that give rise to misunderstandings. It also described the ecosystem dynamics that make change difficult, even before considering the varying firm-level strategies of browser vendors.

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The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 13, 2018

If you’ve ever worked with Docker containers you’ve probably been exposed to them being stateless, meaning when a container is destroyed, all record of it is lost including any files it might have created. Not great if you’re working with say a database, correct? However, let’s look at this from a different angle. Let’s say you are deploying a web application that requires some configuration.

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Database Development 40

Speed Curve

JUNE 13, 2018

We're excited to announce the availability of the First Input Delay metric as part of LUX , SpeedCurve's RUM product. First Input Delay (FID) was developed by Google to capture how quickly websites respond to user interaction. It's fairly simple to implement: We add event handlers for click, mousedown, keydown, pointerdown, and touchstart. When the user first interacts with the page in one of those ways, we measure the time between when the event happened and when the event handler was actually

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Website Metrics Google Availability 40

Percona Community

JUNE 12, 2018

Modern applications often feature the use of data in many different languages. This is often true even of applications that only offer a user facing interface in a single language. Many users may, for example, need to enter names which, although using Latin characters, feature diacritics; in other cases, they may need to enter text which contains Chinese or Japanese characters.

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Gtmetrix

JUNE 13, 2018

We walk you through all the reasoning behind monitoring your website with GTmetrix, complete with real-world examples and data.

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