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LoAFperformance.now() 20252025-10-30
LoAF (Long Animation Frames) gives per-frame timings plus script-level attribution so pages can show which scripts actually cause slow frames and how often…
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Reducing the Speed Impact of Third-Party Tagsperformance.now() 20222022-10-27
Shows concrete fixes and measurable wins: use WebPageTest/SpeedCurve to spot connection and main‑thread contention, remove stray document.write flags in GTM…
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How To Secure Your MicroServicesNDC London 20202020-01-27
Uses Consul and Vault to replace copy‑pasted connection strings with dynamic Postgres credentials that Vault creates and later revokes, demonstrated from a…
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Feature Toggles: The Good, The Bad and The UglyDevConf 20192019-09-25
A catastrophic reuse of a flag at a high‑frequency firm causes an infinite loop across 7 of 8 servers, racks up ~$450M in 45 minutes and ends the company…
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Feature Toggles: The Good, The Bad, and The UglyDevDays Europe 20192019-05-14
Clear operational rules and hard numbers: a reused feature toggle plus a partial deploy causes Night Capital to lose 450 million dollars in 45 minutes when…
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Feature Toggles: The Good, The Bad, and The UglyNDC Sydney 20182018-09-17
Explains concrete rules for feature toggles with C# examples and real failures like Night Capital where reusing a flag for an eight year old power peg feature…
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12 Factor MicroServicesNDC Oslo 20182018-06-11
Builds an ASP.NET Core app that follows the 12 Factor rules: one (mini) mono-repo with separate stateless processes, explicit NuGet/Docker dependencies…
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Fast Fashion - How Missguided Revolutionised their Approach to Site PerformanceDeltaV Conference 20182018-05-10
Missguided starts performance work summer 2017, forms a dedicated team, and measures with WebPageTest on a Motorola G2 and RUM to tie load times to revenue…
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A/B Testing, Ads and other 3rd Party TagsSmashing Conference London 20182018-02-07
Increasingly we rely on third-party scripts to deliver business-critical features of our sites – analytics, adverts, multi-variant testing, comments…
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Building a Serverless, EventSourced Slack cloneNDC Oslo 20172017-06-14
Builds a Slack-like chat using Terraform to provision AWS: static front end on S3, API Gateway -> Lambda for commands, Cognito for auth, DynamoDB as the event…
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Panel 2: NetworkEdge Conference 20132013-02-09
Network latency and round trips are the biggest page‑load killers on 3G, so concrete fixes matter: images are 60% of bytes and many sites misencode PNG/JPEGs…
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