PAY per USE can derail your Serverless (dream) Budget

"This is the 2nd post in the Serverless communications series. Monitoring tells you whether the system works. Observability lets you ask why it’s not working."

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I learned to love the Same-Origin Policy

"I spent a good chunk of my work life this year trying (in collaboration with the amazing Noam Rosenthal) to standardize a new web platform feature: a way to modify the intrinsic size and resolution of images. And hey! We did it! But boy, was it ever a learning experience."

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Automatic Social Share Images

"Every time I write a new blog post, I share it to Twitter. And, if I’m being honest, these tweets usually look pretty boring. Here’s the tweet for last month’s blog post. When I built my post template I added the most basic tags like author, description, and keywords."

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Front-end JavaScript performance

"Nearly every website uses JavaScript, so JavaScript performance is a growing topic in modern front-end development. In this post we'll introduce common performance pitfalls and discuss how to detect and avoid them. We'll focus on JavaScript execution and other CPU processing that results from it."

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Will it Scale? - Finding Svelte's Inflection Point

"Will it Scale? - Finding Svelte's Inflection Point from #2546 Theoretically, yes there is an inflection point. Where that inflection point is is the only thing that really matters."

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Introducing the new Serverless LAMP stack

"This is the first in a series of posts for PHP developers. The series will explain how to use serverless technologies with PHP. It covers the available tools, frameworks and strategies to build serverless applications, and why now is the right time to start."

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Develop, Preview, Test

"Writing tests is an investment, and like any other investment, it has to be evaluated in terms of its return and risks (e.g.: opportunity costs) it incurs in. The "not too many" keys in on that."

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Prefetching? At This Age?

"A while back, I wrote about using Netlify and SpeedCurve to A/B test performance changes. The one I specifically mentioned was testing out Instant.Page on my site."

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iOSViewport.md

"Whether you're developing a web application with native-ish UI, or just a simple modal popup overlay that covers the viewport, when it comes to making things work on iDevices in Mobile Safari, you're in for a decent amount of pain and suffering."

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Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends

"It is one of those days. You typed in twitter.com in your browser and you saw a new tweet from someone on how to use React Hooks. But, for some reason, your company or a team hasn’t switched to using Hooks. Or, maybe you are using them, but not in a new “trendy” way. Perhaps you are using Vue."

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Amazon SNS Notification Contents for Amazon SES

"Bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications are published to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format."

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