The Daily Index — Friday, August 11, 2023 · TLDR Index

ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

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SHOPPING FOR SPEED ON EBAY.COM

This article discusses the efforts made by eBay to enhance the performance of its sites and apps for a faster user experience. Every 100-millisecond improvement in eBay’s search page loading time leads to a 0.5% increase in "Add to Cart" counts. The article delves into various optimization techniques employed by eBay, such as reducing payload across text resources, image optimizations, predictive prefetching of static assets, and edge caching strategies.

medium.com · 8 min

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I REVIEWED 1,000S OF GRAPHQL VS. REST PERSPECTIVES

This article breaks down conclusions from thousands of discussions debating GraphQL vs REST. It’s good to start with REST as it’s simpler than GraphQL. Then, as a product scales, it might be worth it to switch to using GraphQL for optimization purposes.

konfigthis.com · 10 min

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MOVING FASTER

Coding speed and efficiency is something many developers don’t spend much time optimizing, but it’s an important trait to produce more quality work and get promoted faster in one's career. This blog post breaks down tips on how to code faster, such as avoiding multitasking, making decisions based on goals, and batching tasks together.

scattered-thoughts.net · 17 min

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PROJECT IDX

Google has announced Project IDX, a browser-based development experience built on Google Cloud and powered by Codey, a foundational AI model trained on code and built on PaLM 2. Project IDX is designed to make it easier to build, manage, and deploy full-stack web and multiplatform applications with popular frameworks and languages. There is currently a waitlist to try Project IDX.

developers.googleblog.com · 3 min

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HOW TO REPOSITION A FAILING PRODUCT

This blog provides steps and strategies for repositioning a product that isn't meeting its intended goals. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the root cause of a product's failure before making drastic changes. The article outlines various tactics for repositioning, such as targeting a different persona or addressing a different use case, and underscores the significance of customer feedback in guiding the repositioning process.

blog.logrocket.com · 7 min

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ARE REPORTS OF STACK OVERFLOW’S FALL GREATLY EXAGGERATED?

Traffic is down at Stack Overflow, but Stack Overflow claims that the drop is not as big as recent reports say it is. Search engine traffic and Q&A activity is down, presumably due to coding assistants like GPT-4.

open.substack.com · 10 min

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WORKDAY

Slack is about to roll out its biggest-ever redesign, changing both the look and the layout of the app to hopefully make things easier to find and easier to manage.

theverge.com · 6 min

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DOCUMENT DRIVEN MEETINGS AT AMAZON

Documents are the core of Amazon meetings. While documents can take time to produce, they increase meeting quality.

justingarrison.com · 4 min