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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index. Identify Page Types.

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Speeding Up Async Snippets

CSS Wizardry

The reason they give us this cumbersome snippet, and not a much more succinct , is purely historical: async snippets are a legacy performance hack. Generally speaking, blocking files are worse for performance, especially when hosted on someone else’s origin. Well, unfortunately, this performance polyfill is bad for performance.

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Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

Dynatrace

Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. At Dynatrace Perform, the annual software intelligence platform conference, we will highlight new integrations that eliminate toolchain silos, tame complexity, and automate DevOps practices.

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Essential Techniques for Performance Tuning in Snowflake

DZone

Performance tuning in Snowflake is optimizing the configuration and SQL queries to improve the efficiency and speed of data operations. Performance tuning is crucial in Snowflake for several reasons:

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DevOps orchestration breaks quality-speed stalemate in SDLC

Dynatrace

DevOps orchestration is essential for development teams struggling to balance speed with quality. There doesn’t need to be a tradeoff between quality and speed as long as we use SLOs as our guardrails,” says Grabner in the video conversation. Register for Perform 2022 today , and check out the Advancing DevOps and DevSecOps track.

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CDNs: Speed Up Performance by Reducing Latency

DZone

Upload files with HTML Upload files with JavaScript Receive uploads in Node.js (Nuxt.js) Optimize storage costs with Object Storage Optimize performance with a CDN Secure uploads with malware scans Today, we’ll do more architectural work, but this time it’ll be focused on optimizing performance.

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Check Internet Speed With Apple Network Responsiveness

DZone

There are umpteen tools available to check the internet speed. SpeedTest, Speed from Cloudflare , Netflix's Fast , or if you use Google search , you can test the internet speed and its analytics. In macOS Monterey, Apple has released a command-line tool called networkQuality.

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