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Reinventing npmjs.com
Katie Fenn talks about the process of architecting the new npmjs.com website, and examines how the changing landscape of development tooling has shaped it throughout its lifetime.
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Pricing Page Optimization
Elena Verna discusses user behavior on the pricing page and how to organize the A/B testing resources to optimize the pricing page, one of the most important funnels of a website.
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Using NLP to Categorize and Find Similar Web Pages
Thomas Levi shows how to categorize web pages by building a system that exploits techniques in natural language processing and topic modeling.
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Architecting Cross-Platform Mobile Frameworks
Spencer Chan overviews Quora's architecture that allows them to share the majority of their application code across their Android, iOS and web apps, discussing challenges and benefits.
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What Developers Need To Know About Visual Design and UX
Ben Hall explores the five key topics around design that can make or break an application and website: Layout and the golden ratio, Typography, Imaginary, Colors and User Feedback.
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The Pursuit of Tappiness – a Case Study in Making Tablet Friendly Websites
Neil Turner discusses how TUI made two websites tablet friendly, what it means to optimize for tablet, how needed improvements were identified and how to ensure that future designs are tablet friendly
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Wix Architecture at Scale
Aviran Mordo introduces Wix's architecture, a highly available eventually consistent system, along with patterns for rendering many websites with a relatively small number of servers.
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Mobile Web Performance - Getting & Staying Fast!
Andy Davies, Aaron Peters present how networks, browsers and the way sites are built affect user experience, and take a look at some of the latest techniques for measuring and improving performance.
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Stop Hitting Yourself: CSS Design Patterns That Scale
Kevin Lamping presents patterns for writing CSS for very large websites.
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Building Modern Web Sites: A Story of Scalability and Availability
Sid Anand uses examples from LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay to discuss some common causes of outages and scaling issues. He also discusses modern practices in availability and scaling in web sites today.
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Optimized for Change: Architecture @ Etsy
Kellan Elliott-McCrea discusses the technological and process changes Etsy has been going through the last two years in order to make the website more resilient.
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Scala: Simplifying Development at guardian.co.uk
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.