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Imagine driving on the freeway in a (partially) self-driving car like a Tesla. While you drive the car, you come across things you would expect like trees, lampposts and other cars but also things that don't belong there like trash floating around. Meanwhile, radars and sensors in the car are working hard to make sure you don't crash because of these things. If you see the freeway as your fast-changing IT environment, then all the things that don't belong there are anomalies.

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People think technical writing is boring, but sometimes documenting software is an adventure. It’s not an adventure like “whee, got my sword and shield, adventure time!” No, it’s more like taking a nice stroll down a path to an unfamiliar-but-known destination when the ground suddenly opens up under your feet. As you’re falling down into the depths, that’s when you realize you are about to have an adventure. I’m a technical writer at Grafana Labs.

This blog post will explain how to effectively profile your website so that you can deal with performance pain points. We’ll go through the two most used tools in Google Chrome for profiling: Imagine that you optimized your backend and everything is running smoothly. However, for some reason, the load time of your pages is still unreasonably high. Your users might be experiencing sluggish UI and long load times. This post will help you sort these issues out.

In typical San Francisco startup fashion, we have our own set of “these are the things we stand by” company values. While we don’t aspire to churning out motivational poster-style blurbs, we do want to accurately reflect what’s important to our mission and vision — the principles that drive these forward. And, ok… Yes, these will likely end up on a poster of sorts. Just not the motivational type. And with way better design work.