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Implementing 429 retries and throttling for API rate-limits

This is a cracking article/tutorial about how to handle requests made to a third party API that is rate limited. Learn how to handle 429 Too Many Requests responses when consuming 3rd party APIs. — Read on www.useanvil.com/blog/engineering/throttling-and-consuming-apis-with-429-rate-limits/

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Writing

Improving performance: Removing Disqus Comments

Now that I’m writing her on a daily bais I want to make sure that I’m keeping this site as lean and fast as possible to increase the chances that people are going to be able to read the content. One of the most important aspects being able to read content is seeing it in […]

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Justice.js

https://okor.github.io/justice/ A performance metric bar with a streaming FPS graph.g How to use <script type=”text/javascript” src=”justice.min.js”></script>
 <script type=”text/javascript”>
 Justice.init();
 </script>
 With options <script type=”text/javascript” src=”justice.min.js”></script>
 <script type=”text/javascript”>
 Justice.init({
 metrics: {
 TTFB: { budget: 200 },
 domInteractive: { budget: 250 },
 domComplete: { budget: 800 },
 firstPaint: { budget: 1000 },
 pageLoad: { budget: 2000 },
 […]

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loader.io

Simple Cloud-based Load Testing. Loader.io is a FREE load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps & apis with thousands of concurrent connections. Visit Link

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Is CriticalCSS harming our site performance?

In a recent article on Medium, JP DeVries wrote about “Unfolding Critical CSS“. Are you building a single web page that users will visit once never to return to or are you building a multi–page website that most users click around on for a while? If you inline an average of ~20kB of critical CSS […]

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Wordpress Writing

My local WordPress MAMP site slow

While I was on the train ride home today I was writing an article on my local copy of WordPress when I thought to myself “This is actually slower than working with the patchy wifi and GPRS”. The best thing about running your site locally is that you do not require an internet connection to […]

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Writing

User generated content in a multi platform publishing world

I’ve just finished reading Snooks article User Generated Content in a Classy World, which is turn was a follow up to Chris Coyiers article Class up Content. Recently I’ve been trying to apply AMP templates to the Responsive Design Knowledge Hub and it’s been a learning curve. The thing I can not fix is the […]

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Writing

Responsive Performance

I’m setting up a new page over on the RWD.is site looking for some guinea pigs lucky volunteers to start receiving reports and recommendations around their website performance across a variety of the devices and connections. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of reviews of site performance and most of the recommendations are being repeated […]

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Enabling https SSL on your site

An overview on getting SSL or https working with Namecheap, Media Temple and Plesk. Visit Link

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CriticalCSS Bookmarklet and Devtool Snippet.js

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