#140: How the QUIC Transport Protocol works

.

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news - Read this on the Web

Issue 140 — November 1, 2017

How to Dump Google Analytics for SQL in 3 Hours   tutorial  A look at using cloud services to track requests to a tracking pixel and then using BigQuery to analyze the results. Michael Lugassy A Look at the QUIC Transport Protocol   tutorial  7% of global traffic is now flowing over QUIC, a protocol commonly used by Google. This is a look at an academic paper describing how it works. the morning paper DevOps Team Roles and Responsibilities Unlike traditional development or operations teams, there are some nuances to the roles and responsibilities of core team members. To help illustrate, let’s review. Engine Yard   sponsored  Let’s Stop Building APIs Around a Network Hack   opinion  A call to use HTTP/2 more often, given its strong support, and to avoid the compromises HTTP/1.1 entails. Phil Sturgeon Captain Duck Duck: A Modern, Generic HTTP App Server   tools  Brings together Docker, NGINX, Let’s Encrypt and NetData (a monitoring system) for easy deployment and scaling of webapps written in your language of choice. Kasra Bigdeli HTTP 103: A Draft HTTP Status Code for Indicating 'Hints'   news  The idea is to allow Web servers to send back certain headers (e.g. preload link headers) early before the main response. IETF A Surprising Amount of People Want to Be in North Korea   story  A tale of widespread BGP fakery and how IPs aren’t necessarily where you’d expect them to be. Ben Cox Jobs DevOps Engineer - Remote Want to help us build the best continuous delivery service in the world? We're looking for engineers to join our Platform team. Semaphore   sponsored  In brief Half of All Internet Traffic Comes From Bots   news  Axios Microsoft Launches Brigade: An Event-Driven Scripting Tool for Kubernetes   news  Michelle Gienow AWS Introduces 'P3' Instances to EC2   news  They’re high-end compute-optimized GPU instances with up to 8 Tesla GPUs. Amazon Web Services Practical Scalability Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law The Universal Scalability Law models how systems perform as they grow. This ebook shows how to best use it. VividCortex   sponsored  3 Commands to Add SSL to 'localhost' for https://localhost on MacOS   tutorial  Paul Browne Getting Headless Chrome Running on Heroku   tutorial  Tim Leland 10 Layers of Linux Container Security   tutorial  Daniel Oh How to Prepare for AWS’s Move to Its Own Certificate Authority   tutorial  Amazon Web Services Squeezing Every Drop of Performance Out of a Django App on Heroku   tutorial  Ben Firshman Analyzing Docker Container Performance with Native Tools   tutorial  Richa Karn A Brief Visual Guide to Amazon Elastic File System   tutorial  EFS provides elastic file systems across AWS services. awsgeek.​com Deploying Java Applications with Docker and Kubernetes   tutorial  Daniel Bryant Continuous Delivery 101 from GoCD   video  Gain a holistic view of continuous delivery and a deeper understanding and appreciation of critical concepts. GoCD   sponsored  Discovering Issues in HTTP/2 with Chaos Testing   story  Dan Tehranian Ask HN: How Did You Significantly Reduce Your AWS Costs?   opinion  Hacker News Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came From and Where They’re Going   opinion  Mesosphere Tarmak: A Toolkit for Kubernetes Cluster Provisioning and Management   tools  Christian Simon Read this issue on the Web See our archives Change your email address Stop getting this newsletter Published by Cooperpress Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK

#314: The Future of Loading on the Web

This Week's HTML, CSS, Browser, and Frontend News — Read this e-mail on the Web Frontend Focus Issue 314 — November 1, 2017 Creating HTML Web Components with Vanilla JS While native Web Component support isn’t 100% yet, polyfills are available, and this tutorial walks through what’s involved to create your own HTML tags as components. Ayush Gupta HTTP 103: A Draft HTTP Status Code for Indicating 'Hints' The idea is to allow Web servers to send back certain headers (e.g. preload link headers) early before the main response. IETF Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At Richard Rutter goes deep on how to improve the readability of your data tables. Richard Rutter 🚀 Add PDF Support to Your Web App in No Time A step-by-step tutorial on how to display and annotate PDF files inside your web app using the PSPDFKit JavaScript library. Features include cross-browser support (IE 11 and up), mobile optimized UI, and no server-side component. PSPDFKit   Sponsor How to Write a JS-Free Todo App With Only HTML and CSS An interesting creative attempt to create a basic ‘web app’ using nothing but HTML & CSS. Matt Zeunert I Watched All The Chrome Dev Summit Vids So You Don't Have To The takeaway: Google wants you to build PWAs, reduce JS file size, use Web Components, and configure your forms to support autofill. Dan Fabulich Building a Fast Search Experience How popular car selling platform Auto Trader created a high-performance search experience that regularly returns results in less than a second. Elliot Sumner The Future of Loading on the Web Sam Saccone explores recently shipped performance primitives, cutting edge performance techniques, and a glimpse into what the future of loading on the web may hold. Google Chrome Developers The Accessibility Cheatsheet A helpful overview with some simple things you can do to take positive steps towards a more accessible web. From 2015, but worth revisiting. Ire Aderinokun Jobs Frontend Developer at X-Team (Remote)We help our developers keep learning and growing every day. Unleash your potential. Work from anywhere. Join X-Team. X-Team UI Designer/Frontend DeveloperInterested in #tech4good? We’re seeking a UI Designer to work across ideation, prototyping & coding for international development. Catalpa International craigslist seeks JavaScript Developers (San Francisco, CA)CL seeks JS developers to join our small (~50) team. Come help us save the world, or at least our corner of the Internet. craigslist In Brief Microsoft's Plan to Bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to Windows 10 news Paul Thurrott W3C Invites Implementations of Preload news This spec defines the preload keyword that may be used with link elements. W3C JS Kongress Munich - The Future of JavaScript on Nov 13-14 news Join us for two days on the Future of JavaScript (inc. WebAssembly & Tooling). Topics include Frontend Architecture, webpack, Angular, React, Perf, etc. JS Kongress Munich  Sponsor Unlocking the Benefits of CSS Variables tutorial The benefits of CSS variables and helpful tips and tricks for working with them. Jonathan Harrell How to Build an Interactive Virtual Globe with Three.js tutorial Jeanne Castillo 3 Commands to Add SSL to 'localhost' for https://localhost on MacOS tutorial Paul Browne A Look at the Relatively Uncommon 'output' HTML Element tutorial Robin Rendle Using Redux When Building Chrome Extensions tutorial Bruno Antunes Emulating CSS Timing Functions with JavaScript tutorial Ana Tudor Getting Around a Revoked Certificate in macOS tutorial Geoff Graham Using ReactJS, ES6 & JSX to Build a UI (the rise of MERN) tutorial Part 5 of our Modern Application Stack series - Why ReactJS is driving the development of modern apps. MONGODB  Sponsor The Web Began Dying in 2014, Here's How opinion “GOOG and FB now have direct influence over 70%+ of internet traffic.” André Staltz An Animated Flexbox Playground tools A helpful visual reminder of what effect certain Flexbox properties have. Blake Bowen grid-kiss: A PostCSS Plugin to Keep CSS Grids 'Stupidly Simple' tools Sylvain Pollet-Villard Koa11y: An Open Source Web Accessibility Tool tools A desktop app for automatically detecting Web accessibility issues. Jared Wilcurt A Better Focus? demo An attempt at a more ‘visually-pleasing focus for keyboard users’. CodePen Curated by Peter Cooper and Chris Brandrick and published by Cooperpress. Stop getting FrontEnd Focus : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web Cooper Press Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK

Master and Commander

No Images? Click here A to Z Front-end First up, some simple React patterns [codementor]. The art of commenting in code [css-tricks]. And one way to handle z-index [hackernoon]. How to create custom components with Component IO [sitepoint].   Master and Commander Back-end/programming A reasonable approach to getting acquainted with the command line [css-tricks]. Once you’re acquainted with the command line, a guide to writing your first PHP code [sitepoint]. And a quick guide to deep learning [medium.freecodecamp], just because. Slightly more advanced, TensorFlow now has something called eager execution [research.googleblog], meaning it’ll execute operations immediate as they’re called from Python, making it easier to get started with TF. This Chrome extension brings the power of Insight.io to GitHub [chrome.google].   Absolutely Fabulous Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs) Lead developer, Airtime Pro [Sourcefabric], remote  Systems engineer [Pressable], remote. Want your next open position here? You should! 47,000+ very qualified readers will see it and a slightly smaller number of those will apply! Go here and place your ad [sitepoint].   Space Invaders Design/UX/product A collection of UI gradients styles for Sketch [gumroad]. This site will give ya responsive screenshots when you give it a URL [responsive-screenshots]. A comprehensive overview of UX design deliverables [medium/thinking-design]. An intro to color in the context of designing a form layout [sitepoint].   Leave Your Lava News/business Google, Facebook and Twitter had a bit of a chat with a United States congressional panel. Turns out their platforms hosted a disinformation campaign by Russia last year [arstechnica]. They’re working on it, though. I assume that’s the last we’ll hear on this subject. If you think that’s bad, well, it is. But worse is some of the stuff happening on Facebook overseas [nytimes]. Oh, one more, unrelated FB link: you know that phenomenon where you’ll see an ad for something that you’re pretty sure you’ve only talked about on the phone? “That’s not a real thing,” Facebook’s VP of ads says, adding fuel to the fire [cnbc]. NASA’s got a plan to save the world from a supervolcano [bbc]. Google now has a predictions engine, powered by machine learning, you can use to grow your app [firebase.google].   Hammer Time Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) Gosu AI [gosu.ai] is a tool that’ll analyze your eSports play and recommend improvements. Oak [oakmeditation] is a meditation app from Digg founder Kevin Rose. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks good! The now-annual “new iPhone goes to Disneyland” review, with the iPhone X [techcrunch]. Finally, the “steamed hams” bit from The Simpsons, as a Guitar Hero song [youtube/expnandbanana]. It’s actually quite incredible. Though I'm someone who frequently refers to burgers as steamed hams, so your mileage may vary.         There's Versioning for ya for Wednesday. A mid-week Versioning! What a time! I'll be out to look for a copy of Guitar Hero and a copy of the complete Simpsons box set. I mean, I could meditate, but I feel like this achieves the same result. See ya tomorrow, assuming I lost interest in either Guitar Hero or The Simpsons - kinda unlikely! Curated by Adam. Wait, why am I here, what is this?   You're receiving this email because you've signed up for Versioning, SitePoint's daily email for web developers. Manage your preferences to stop receiving Versioning, or unsubscribe from all SitePoint emails below.   Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Optimizing Landing Pages for More Conversions

Optimizing Landing Pages for More Conversions This is your SiteProNews/ExactSeek Webmaster Newsletter! To drop your subscription use the link at the bottom of this message. To view on a mobile device, visit us online. November 1 — Issue #2533

SiteProNews Breaking Tech, Social Media and Search Engine News

Home     Videos     Article Archives     Advertise     Guest Blogging     SPNbabble     Infographics     Tech Search

Optimizing Landing Pages for More Conversions A SPN Exclusive Article by Adriana Tica (c) 2017 When you speak of landing page optimization, you generally refer to getting more conversions through it. And that's perfectly understandable. After all, this is what a landing page should do – convert readers into paying customers. Plus, since most landing pages are part of sales funnels that usually start with PPC ads, why bother with SEO? Ramp Up Your Website Traffic Well, does more targeted traffic mean anything to you? If so, keep reading. At the digital marketing agency I run, a lot of the copywriting we do is for clients who want a high conversion rate for their landing pages. But we also ask them about SEO before getting to work. Most of them are surprised at first, but it doesn't take them long to realize the benefits of the "double" optimization. However, they all have the same concern: "can you do both?" In other words, won't SEO hurt the flow of the landing page? Continue Reading at SiteProNews

Quick Links AddMe    Blog Search    SubmitExpress    Web-Source    Website Builder    SubmissionMonster    SonicRun    FreeWebMonitoring    FreeWebSubmission

Follow SPN on: Facebook    Twitter    YouTube    RSS Feed

You are currently signed up to spn-html as: rkremer111.djfunky1@blogger.com To deactivate SPN mailings, Use This Link or send a blank email to leave-spn-html-6695021D@mailjayde.com Jayde Online, Inc. Suite 380, 23-845 Dakota Street Winnipeg, MB R2M 5M3 © Copyright 2017 All rights reserved For other support inquiries go here