Scaling software is managers pride and engineers headache, Just kidding. Scaling software is a discipline in performance engineering where the software is unable to work normally due to resource constraints arising due to high workload. Let's discuss scaling techniques in detail.
It's very rare to see software without issues and development teams with fit & healthy individuals. Rampant operations issues, longer meetings can take a toll on software teams and their health. Here are 6 actionable tips which you can follow to keep up your software team's health.
Dependabot is a bot or assistant that can help with security updates of your dependencies. Phew, that's cool right. A bot taking care of your application security threats. Here are more details about the dependabot.
Single-page applications are the opposite of multi-page applications. Is that not explanatory enough? Let us dig deeper.
Mobile data is expensive. The browsers need to think about their customer's mobile data before serving the full website which on average weighs 3MB. In chrome we have a setting called data saver, let us dig deeper into it.
Ask any frontend veteran, CSS is the hardest thing to refactor. Having said that, unused CSS easily gets shipped to production despite modern build. One of the CSS pruning libraries is purgeCSS. Let's see how purgeCSS works with react CRA.
Lighthouse is an amazing audit tool to check the performance of the website based on certain rules. I ran lighthouse from the chrome dev tools and this is what I found. An 80 on SEO score on the landing page. Read this blog to find out how I got the SEO score to 100.
Alexa gadget needs no introduction. Those round or tubular smart speakers which can talk to you and advertise themselves as an assistant. But are they useful in a working setup? Let's find out.