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Discover why Time to First Byte (TTFB) is crucial for website speed in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for junior web developers learning performance optimization, this concise guide explains exactly what TTFB measures—the critical waiting period between a user's initial request and your server's first response. Learn how TTFB encompasses redirects, DNS lookups, SSL negotiations, server processing time, and geographical distance, making it the first blocking step in your page's loading sequence.

Discover why Time to First Byte (TTFB) is crucial for website speed in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for junior web developers learning performance optimization, this concise guide explains exactly what TTFB measures—the critical waiting period between a user's initial request and your server's first response. Learn how TTFB encompasses redirects, DNS lookups, SSL negotiations, server processing time, and geographical distance, making it the first blocking step in your page's loading sequence.

Impostor syndrome is something that seems to plague IT organizations of all shapes and sizes. No matter how long you've been in IT, or the sizes of the teams you've supported, or the projects that you've completed, it seems like everyone has a tendency to doubt their own capabilities in IT. In this stream, we brought on a few IT folks to discuss.

Flyway will automatically check pending migration files for code smells using built-in and customizable rules. In this episode, Tony and Tonie discuss not one but two Phil Factor articles! One explains how to get started, and the other provides a starter pack of custom regex rules to help teams implement their own coding standards and describes how to maintain your rule library efficiently as it grows.

Join Stefan Judis, Playwright ambassador, as he explains why the getByRole() locator is the only locator considering visibility when matching UI elements.

Do you struggle to debug or build microservices apps locally? Use Speedscale and proxymock to record from one environment and simulate your services locally.