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Displaying Page Load Metrics on Your Site

Jos

I was browsing Tim Kadlec’s website and I noticed he had added page load time metrics in the footer. Tim Kadlec’s site shows how long the page took to load in the footer. Stoyan Stefanov also realized and wrote “This page loaded in X seconds” , a blog post describing the code used for this. Stoyan also created a bookmark that shows an alert with the load time of the current page.

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. The Amazon S3 team still celebrate with homemade pies! March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2.

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Create A Bitcoin Hardware Wallet With Golang And A Raspberry Pi Zero

The Polyglot Developer

Over the past month or so, in my free time, I’ve been working towards creating an affordable hardware wallet for various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Right now many cryptocurrency enthusiasts are using the Ledger Nano S hardware wallet, but those are very expensive and rarely in supply. I own several Raspberry Pi Zero and thought it would be a perfect opportunity to take what I know about Raspberry Pi and Golang to create a wallet for a fraction of the price as the industry leading wa

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A graphical user interface to build apps on top of microservices

O'Reilly Software

How to enable non-programmer business users to create their own data applications. Companies are increasingly asking their IT staffs for rapid turn-around on tasks that require programming. The most likely path to attaining quick turn-around would be to let non-programmers create their own applications—an approach that can be achieved with a combination of microservices, APIs, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

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Displaying Page Load Metrics on Your Site

Jos

I was browsing Tim Kadlec’s website and I noticed he had added page load time metrics in the footer. Tim Kadlec’s site shows how long the page took to load in the footer. Stoyan Stefanov also realized and wrote “This page loaded in X seconds” , a blog post describing the code used for this. Stoyan also created a bookmark that shows an alert with the load time of the current page.

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What is Interface Testing? Know Its Types, Strategy and Tools

Software Testing Help

Introduction to Interface Testing: When an application or a software or a website is developed, then there are several components of it. Those components can be server, database etc. The. Read more What is Interface Testing? Know Its Types, Strategy and Tools. The post What is Interface Testing? Know Its Types, Strategy and Tools appeared first on Software Testing Help.

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What is Recovery Testing?

Testlodge

Is your team prepared for when disaster strikes? Every software system is subject to a disaster, and these events can have a massive impact on the business. The key is being prepared so that you can recover quickly. This is where recovery testing comes in. What is Recovery Testing? Recovery testing is when you force the failure of your software in order to verify that recovering from the failure is both possible and properly performed.

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Interviewing Developers For The Skills You Actually Need

Professor Beekums

Hiring software developers is a difficult endeavor. Good developers are hard to source and they’re hard to interview. I have zero advice on the former, but plenty of experience with the latter. When I first started interviewing developers, I had no idea where to start. The only advice I received was “Try to determine if you would like to work with the person.

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Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App

Dean Hume

Regular readers of this blog might notice a slightly different look and feel to this site. I’ve recently updated this blog and moved it from a custom ASP.NET website that has been running since about 2009 to Ghost CMS. The old blog was working as expected, but an overall refresh was long overdue. I’ve also been itching to add a few new features including updating it to work as a Progressive Web App.

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The Best Photo Personal Item: Think Tank Airport Ultralight 2.5

Website Optimization

Continuing our series on travel photography, this time we set out fo find the ultimate photo personal item. We've already found the best photo carry-on , the Pelican Air 1525, which can hold mucho camera equipment and even tripods in a lightweight yet hard case. The companion piece to the carry-on is the smaller personal item. Long story short, the Thinktank Airport Ultralight version 2.5 fits the bill (and underseat).

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Notes on: Raiders of the Fast Start at Perfmatters

Tim Kadlec

At #PerfMatters , Katie Sylor-Miller gave a presentation entitled “Raiders of the Fast Start” (best title ever). Here are my notes. Performance archaeology uncovers insights into your development and performance culture. Start with a hypothesis and do a comprehensive survey and additional resource. When you understand the context, start excavating and finally interpret your discoveries.

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Interviewing Developers For The Skills You Actually Need

Professor Beekums

Hiring software developers is a difficult endeavor. Good developers are hard to source and they’re hard to interview. I have zero advice on the former, but plenty of experience with the latter. When I first started interviewing developers, I had no idea where to start. The only advice I received was “Try to determine if you would like to work with the person.

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Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App

Dean Hume

Regular readers of this blog might notice a slightly different look and feel to this site. I’ve recently updated this blog and moved it from a custom ASP.NET website that has been running since about 2009 to Ghost CMS. The old blog was working as expected, but an overall refresh was long overdue. I’ve also been itching to add a few new features including updating it to work as a Progressive Web App.

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SpeedCurve Consulting Services with Tim Kadlec

Speed Curve

We're excited to announce that SpeedCurve is partnering with Tim Kadlec to provide consulting services to our customers! Tim is a recognized expert when it comes to web performance. He has spoken at numerous conferences including Velocity, Fluent, QCon, SmashingConf, Beyond Tellerand, and WebStock. He wrote High Performance Images and Implementing Responsive Design , as well as contributing to other books.

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Partnering with Speedcurve

Tim Kadlec

When I wrote about beginning to work for myself again, I mentioned that there were a few things in the works that I was particularly excited about. Today, I get to spill the beans on one of them: I’m partnering with SpeedCurve to provide performance consulting services to SpeedCurve customers! The SpeedCurve team is ridiculous. I mean that in the kindest way possible.

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Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App

Dean Hume

Regular readers of this blog might notice a slightly different look and feel to this site. I’ve recently updated this blog and moved it from a custom ASP.NET website that has been running since about 2009 to Ghost CMS. The old blog was working as expected, but an overall refresh was long overdue. I’ve also been itching to add a few new features including updating it to work as a Progressive Web App.

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